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showed more than 100 problem types. This suggests most directly that students need

a. additional practice learning to recognize buggy algorithms
b. more experience classifying problems according to their surface structure
c. further opportunities to estimate and to make conjectures
d. systematic instruction in representing problems in multiple ways


d

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