In mathematics education, a procept is an amalgam of three components: a "process" which produces a mathematical "object" and a "symbol" which is used to represent either process or object.
It derives from the work of Eddie Gray and David O.
The notion was first published in a paper in the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education in 1994, and is part of the process-object literature.
This body of literature suggests that mathematical objects are formed by encapsulating processes, that is to say that the mathematical object 3 is formed by an encapsulation of the process of counting: 1,2,3... Gray and Tall's notion of procept improved upon the existing literature by noting that mathematical notation is often ambiguous as to whether it refers to process or object.
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