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30. Control of Mathemagenic Activities
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  Introduction
30.1 Origins
30.2 Cognitive Models of Learning Processes
30.3 Some History
30.4 Characteristics of Mathemagenic Activity
30.5 Induction, Modification, and Maintenance
30.6 Interventions
30.7 Dispositional Social Influences
30.8 Learning In Schools and Other Instructive Settings
30.9 Macrotheory of Instruction
30.10 Research issues And the Role Of Mathemagenic Activities In New Instructional Models
30.11 Mathemagenic Activities And Developments In Instructional Technology
30.12 Summing Up
  References
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30. References

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