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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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Analytical, Practical and Emotional Intelligence and Line Manager Competencies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine to what extent line manager competencies are linked to intelligence, and more specifically, three types of intelligence: analytical (fluid), practical and emotional.
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Theme-Park Psychology: A Case Study Regarding Human Intelligence and Its Implications for Education
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the construct of theme-parks psychology, which they define as psychological theory and research drawn only from limited and unrepresentative samples of participants, tasks and situational contexts within the context of worldwide populations.
Literacy and Numeracy in Play: Young Children's Representations of Their Multilingual Worlds
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored how young children use literacy and numeracy in play as they represent themselves in their multilingual worlds and found that children used spatial understanding and translanguaging to represent themselves within their play and community, sometimes prompting discussions surrounding mathematical perspectives and audience.
An analysis of teaching processes in mathematics education for adults
TL;DR: This paper explored the teaching processes in mathematics education for adults and how they are shaped by certain social and institutional forces, including the selection and ordering of content to be taught, the choice of such techniques as lectures or groupwork; the expectations, procedures and norms of the classroom; and the complex web of interactions between teachers and learners, and between learners themselves.
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Children's Minds
TL;DR: Donaldson as discussed by the authors argues that reading is even more important than we have thought it to be, since learning to read ca actually speed children through the crucial transition from preschool to school.
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Cognitive development : its cultural and social foundations
TL;DR: In the early 1930s, Luria and his colleagues studied perception, abstraction, reasoning, and imagination among several remote groups of Uzbeks and Kirghiz from cloistered illiterate women to slightly educated new friends of the central government as mentioned in this paper.
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Natural and contrived experience in a reasoning problem
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TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of prior experience on a deceptive reasoning problem was investigated and the results showed that prior experience was ineffective in allowing subsequent insight to be gained into the problem.
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Na vida dez; na escola zero: os contextos culturais da aprendizagem da matemática.
TL;DR: A concepcao de fracasso escolar aparece alternativamente como fracassos dos individuos (Poppovic, Esposito e Campos, 1975), fracasses of uma classe social (Lewis, 1967, Hoggart, 1957) ou fraccasso de um sistema social, economic, e politico (Freitag, 1979; Porto, 1981) that pratica uma seletividade socio-economica indevida.