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    An instrument is here defined as a mixed entity composed of a part of the artifact and a scheme, a scheme being, according to Vergnaud (1996), the invariant organization of activity to perform a type of task, including rules of action and specific knowledge, produce and spring of the activity.

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Trouche, L. (2020). Instrumentation in Mathematics Education. In: Lerman, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15789-0_80

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