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Mathematical reasoning : analogies, metaphors, and images

Author: Lyn D English
Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1997.
Series: Studies in mathematical thinking and learning.
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Mathematical reasoning.
Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1997
(OCoLC)605200148
Online version:
Mathematical reasoning.
Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1997
(OCoLC)609202191
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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