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The psychology of learning mathematics
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- Creator
- Richard R. Skemp
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Expanded American ed
- Hillsdale, NJ : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1987
- Physical Details
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- ix, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0898598370, 9780898598377, 0805800851, 0080580858, 9780080580852, 0805800581, 9780805800586
- OCLC
- ocm15489183
- Includes indexes.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-210).
- Introduction and overview -- We still have a problem -- Mental journey around the world -- Mathematics and human intelligence -- School situation -- Formation of mathematical concepts -- Abstracting and classifying -- Naming -- Communication of concepts -- Concepts as cultural heritage -- Power of conceptual thinking -- Learning of mathematical concepts -- Learning and teaching -- Idea of a schema -- Integrative function -- Understanding -- Implications for the learning of mathematics -- Intuitive and reflective knowledge -- Symbols -- Communication -- Recording knowledge -- Communication of new concepts -- Making multiple classification straight forward -- Different kinds of imagery -- Interpersonal and emotional factors -- New model of intelligence -- From theory into action -- Type 1 theories and type 2 theories -- Mathematics as an activity of our intelligence -- Relational understanding and instrumental understanding -- Goals of learning and qualities of understanding -- Communicating mathematics -- Symbolic understanding -- Emotions and survival in the classroom -- Managing the risks in learning -- Silent music of mathematics
Subjects
- Mathematics -- Study and teaching.
- Mathematics
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- Psychology, Educational
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