This book presents the reader with a comprehensive overview of the major findings of the recent research on the illusion of linearity.
It discusses: how the illusion of linearity appears in diverse domains of mathematics and science; what are the crucial psychological, mathematical, and educational factors being responsible for the occurrence and persistence of the phenomenon; and how the illusion of linearity can be remedied.
This book presents the reader with a comprehensive overview of the major findings of the recent research on the illusion of linearity.
The international New Math developments between about 1950 through 1980, are regarded by many mathematics educators and education historians as the most historically important development in curricula of the twentieth century. It attracted the attention of local and international politicians, of teachers, and of parents, and influenced the teaching and learning of mathematics at all levels—kindergarten to college graduate—in many nations. After garnering much initial support it began to attract criticism. But, as Bill Jacob and the late Jerry Becker show in Chapter 17, some of the effects...
The international New Math developments between about 1950 through 1980, are regarded by many mathematics educators and education historians as the mo...
