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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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"How much is 'about'?" modélisation computationnelle de l'interprétation cognitive des expressions numériques approximatives
TL;DR: Nos travaux portent sur les Expressions Numeriques Approximatives (ENA), definies comme des expressions linguistiques impliquant des valeurs numeriques and un adverbe d'approximation, telles que "environ 100".
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Theories for Understanding the Neuroscience of Mathematical Cognitive Development
TL;DR: It is argued that there is a place for neuroscience in the field of cognitive development and advocating for the integration of scientific findings across levels of analysis is advocated.
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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
P. C. Wason,Diana Shapiro +1 more
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.