Within an increasingly multimedia focused society, the use of external representations in learning, teaching and communication has increased dramatically. Whether in the classroom, university or workplace, there is a growing requirement to use and interpret a large variety of external representational forms and tools for knowledge acquisition, problem solving, and to communicate with others.
Use of Representations in Reasoning and Problem Solving brings together contributions from some of the world's leading researchers in educational and instructional psychology,...
Within an increasingly multimedia focused society, the use of external representations in learning, teaching and communication has increased dramat...
In this book, the reader is invited to enter a strange world in which you can tell the age of the captain by counting the animals on his ship, where runners do not get tired, and where water gets hotter when you add it to other water. It is the world of a curious genre, known as "word problems" or "story problems". It originated in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, China, and India, and is the subject of daily rituals among students and teachers in mathematics classrooms all around the world. An international group of scholars with a shared interest in this phenomenon explore multiple...
In this book, the reader is invited to enter a strange world in which you can tell the age of the captain by counting the animals on his ship, where r...
In this strange world, the number of animals on his ship reveals the age of the captain; runners do not get tired, and water gets hotter when added to other water. The world of "word problems" or "story problems" is explored international group of scholars.
In this strange world, the number of animals on his ship reveals the age of the captain; runners do not get tired, and water gets hotter when added to...
