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Mathematics in the streets and in schools
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In this article, an analysis of everyday use of mathematics by working youngsters in commercial transactions in Recife, Brazil, revealed computational strategies different from those taught in schools Performance on mathematical problems embedded in real-life contexts was superior to that on school-type word problems and context-free computational problems involving the same numbers and operations.Abstract:
An analysis of everyday use of mathematics by working youngsters in commercial transactions in Recife, Brazil, revealed computational strategies different from those taught in schools Performance on mathematical problems embedded in real-life contexts was superior to that on school-type word problems and context-free computational problems involving the same numbers and operations Implications for education are examinedread more
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Intelligence: Knowns and unknowns.
Ulric Neisser,A. Wade Boykin,Nathan Brody,Stephen J. Ceci,John C. Loehlin,Robert Perloff,Robert J. Sternberg,Susana Urbina +7 more
TL;DR: Neisser as mentioned in this paper (Chair) Gwyneth Boodoo Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr. A. Wade Boykin Nathan Brody Stephen J. Loehlin Robert Perloff Robert J. Sternberg Susana Urbina
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When and where do we apply what we learn?: A taxonomy for far transfer.
Susan M. Barnett,Stephen J. Ceci +1 more
TL;DR: A framework is provided that describes 9 relevant dimensions and shows that the literature can productively be classified along these dimensions, with each study situated at the intersection of various dimensions.
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Situated Learning and Education
TL;DR: This article reviewed the four central claims of situated learning with respect to education: action is grounded in the concrete situation in which it occurs; knowledge does not transfer between tasks; training by abstraction is of little use; and instruction must be done in complex, social environments.
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Organizational Routines Are Stored as Procedural Memory: Evidence from a Laboratory Study
Michael X Cohen,Paul Bacdayan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that individuals store their components of organizational routines in procedural memory, which is memory for how things are done that is relatively automatic and inarticulate, and encompasses both cognitive and motor activities.
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Teaching, as Learning, in Practice
TL;DR: In this article, Lave argued that being human is a relational matter, generated in social living, historically, in social formations whose participants engage with each other as a condition and precondition for their existence, theories that conceive of learning as a special universal mental process impoverish and misrecognize it.
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Cognitive development : its cultural and social foundations
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Na vida dez; na escola zero: os contextos culturais da aprendizagem da matemática.
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