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  • Measurement across the Sciences

    Developing a Shared Concept System for Measurement

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book proposes a conceptual framework for understanding measurement across a broad range of scientific fields and areas of application, such as physics, engineering, education, and psychology. The authors, who themselves span these disciplines, argue that the justification of the public trust attributed to measurement results can in principle apply identically to both physical and psychosocial ... Read more

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  • Measurement Across the Sciences

    Developing a Shared Concept System for Measurement

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This open access book proposes a conceptual framework for understanding measurement across a broad range of scientific fields and areas of application, such as physics, engineering, education, and psychology. It addresses contemporary issues and controversies within measurement in light of the framework, including operationalism, definitional uncertainty, and the relations between measurement and ... Read more

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    Exploring the Three Worlds of Mathematics

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    Series series Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
    How Humans Learn to Think Mathematically describes the development of mathematical thinking from the young child to the sophisticated adult. Professor David Tall reveals the reasons why mathematical concepts that make sense in one context may become problematic in another. For example, a child's experience of whole number arithmetic successively affects subsequent understanding of fractions, ... Read more

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  • Vision

    A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information

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  • Key Ideas in Teaching Mathematics

    Research-based guidance for ages 9-19

    Big ideas in the mathematics curriculum for older school students, especially those that are hard to learn and hard to teach, are covered in this book. It will be a first port of call for research about teaching big ideas for students from 9-19 and also has implications for a wider range of students. These are the ideas that really matter, that students get stuck on, and that can be obstacles to ... Read more

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    The World In Your Head: A Gestalt View of the Mechanism of Conscious Experience represents a bold assault on one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science: the nature of consciousness and the human mind.Rather than examining the brain and nervous system to see what they tell us about the mind, this book begins with an examination of conscious experience to see what it can tell us about the ... Read more

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  • Mental Models

    This classic volume compiles and describes interdisciplinary research on the formal nature of human knowledge about the world. Three key dimensions that characterize mental models research are examined: the nature of the domain studied, the nature of the theoretical approach, and the nature of the methodology. ... Read more

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  • Philosophy of Information

    Series series Handbook of the Philosophy of Science
    Information is a recognized fundamental notion across the sciences and humanities, which is crucial to understanding physical computation, communication, and human cognition. The Philosophy of Information brings together the most important perspectives on information. It includes major technical approaches, while also setting out the historical backgrounds of information as well as its ... Read more

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  • The Growth Of Logical Thinking From Childhood To Adolescence

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    This is Volume XXII of thirty-two on a series of Developmental Psychology. Originally published in 1958, this text offers a translation from French of an essay on the construction of formal operational structures to explain part of the growth of logic in a child's brain and development. It looks at propositional logic, the integration of formal thought and the operational schemata of formal logic. ... Read more

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  • Uncovering Student Thinking in Mathematics, Grades 6-12

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    "Cheryl Rose and Carolyn Arline provide a valuable resource to teachers who are interested in determining how their students think and answer questions in mathematics classes."—From the Foreword by Johnny W. LottDirector, Center for Excellence in Teaching and LearningUniversity of MississippiUse these targeted probes to assess secondary students′ grasp of key mathematics concepts!Research findings ... Read more

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  • Making Sense of Mathematics for Teaching High School

    Understanding How to Use Functions

    Develop a deep understanding of mathematics by grasping the context and purpose behind various strategies. This user-friendly resource presents high school teachers with a logical progression of pedagogical actions, classroom norms, and collaborative teacher team efforts to increase their knowledge and improve mathematics instruction. Explore strategies and techniques to effectively learn and ... Read more

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  • Strategies for Common Core Mathematics

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