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.
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...
