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Lovisa Sumpter; Anneli Blomqvist – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2025
Knowing functions and functional thinking have recently moved from just knowledge for older students to incorporating younger students, and functional thinking has been identified as one of the core competencies for algebra. Although it is significant for mathematical understanding, there is no unified view of functional thinking and how different…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
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Tristan H. S. de Jonge; Anna Berti; Sanne van Schijndel; Margot van Wermeskerken; Ellen Kok – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2025
The coherence principle suggests removing unnecessary--or seductive--content from educational texts to reduce cognitive load. However, the binary proposition that all seductive details should be excluded neglects images' potential to prime semantically related concepts, which makes texts easier to process. It was hypothesized that this priming…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Concept Formation, Learning Processes, Schemata (Cognition)