Why Johnny struggles when familiar concepts are taken to a new mathematical domain: towards a polysemous approach
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DOI: 10.1007/s10649-017-9778-z
Abstract: This article is concerned with cognitive aspects of students’ struggles in situations in which familiar concepts are reconsidered in a new mathematical domain. Examples of such cross-curricular concepts are divisibility in the domain of integers… read more here.
Keywords: polysemous approach; familiar concepts; approach; domain ... See more keywords