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Excerpts of student transcripts were selected on the basis of being related to this question. A dimension of variation emerged from the data, such that the excerpts seemed readily organized along this dimension.

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some students do not see any point to proof&
They teach it to us because they were mathematicians and they like it.\\\hline
They teach it to us because they were mathematicians and they like it.\\


& we didn't see ok why do i really have to know the proof of the theorem to do that right? We didn't see the point, because no one taught us the point, so, that's a very important part that was missing.\\\hline

some students think that it satisfies the curriculum goals, to be able to reproduce a previously taught proof, or follow a procedure to generate a proof, without being personally convinced&
I was able to get a full score, but I don't understand why a proof by induction is convincing\\\hline
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& I know that recursion has the same structure as proof by mathematical induction. \ldots If I had an algorithm with a recursive data structure like a tree, and I had to prove something like termination about it, I'm not sure what approach I would use, it would depend.\\\hline

Some students see that they could employ proof to explore whether an algorithm can be expected to solve a problem in a given context that includes bounds upon resources that are available for consumption. & mostly design the algorithm first, we had some expectation of what that complexity results would be and then we try to find an approach to prove.
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