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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Mathematical reasoning. Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1997 (OCoLC)605200148 Online version: Mathematical reasoning. Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1997 (OCoLC)609202191 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lyn D English |
| ISBN: | 0805819789 9780805819786 0805819797 9780805819793 |
| OCLC Number: | 35830686 |
| Description: | viii, 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Analogies, metaphors, and images: vehicles for mathematical reasoning / Lyn D. English -- Metaphorical structure of mathematics: sketching out cognitive foundations for a mind-based mathematics / George Lakoff and Rafael E. Nunez -- How students think: the role of representations / Robert B. Davis and Carolyn A. Maher -- Analogical reasoning and early mathematics learning / Patricia A. Alexander, C. Stephen White and Martha Daugherty -- Children's development of analogical problem-solving skill / Barry Gholson, Dereece Smither, Audrey Buhrman, Melissa K. Duncan, and Karen A. Pierce -- Children's reasoning processes in classifying and solving computational word problems / Lyn D. English -- Two types of reliance on correlations between content and structure in reasoning about word problems / Miriam Bassok -- Commentary: mathematical reasoning and analogy / Mary Jo Rattermann -- Reasoning with metaphors and metonymies in mathematics learning / Norma C. Presmeg -- Reasoning with images in mathematical activity / Grayson H. Wheatley -- Generalization using imagery in mathematics / Norma C. Presmeg -- Children's mathematical reasoning with the turtle programming metaphor / Douglas H. Clements and Julie Sarama -- Commentary: on metaphorical roots of conceptual growth / Anna Sfard. |
| Series Title: | Studies in mathematical thinking and learning. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Lyn D. English. |
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