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The authors thank Miss Gail Axelbaum and Miss Jan East of Southern Illinois University for their assistance as this research was conducted. This research was presented in the present form at the Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Anaheim, California, April 1971.

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O'Brien, T.C., Shapiro, B.J. & Reali, N.C. Logical thinking-language and context. Educ Stud Math 4, 201–219 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00303385

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