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Nemirovsky, Ricardo; Kelton, Molly L.; Rhodehamel, Bohdan – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2013
Research in experimental and developmental psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience suggests that tool fluency depends on the merging of perceptual and motor aspects of its use, an achievement the authors call "perceptuomotor integration." Just as expertise in playing a piano relies on the interanimation of finger movements and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills, Perceptual Motor Coordination, Informal Education
Nemirovsky, Ricardo; Rubin, Andee – 1992
This study was designed to determine students' abilities and difficulties in articulating the relationship between function and derivative. High-school students were presented 15 problems during two 75-minute interviews in which they were asked to construct functions experimentally in three different contexts: motion, fluids, and number-change. In…
Descriptors: Air Flow, Calculus, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes