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Quan, Gina M.; Gupta, Ayush – Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
Background: Tinkering, an ad hoc approach to solving a problem, involves manipulating objects to characterize and build knowledge about a particular system in an exploratory way, often with the goal of getting some product/idea to produce desired behavior. Tinkering contrasts more deliberate activity toward understanding how a phenomenon works.…
Descriptors: Design, Problem Solving, Object Manipulation, Productivity
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Wetzel, Stefanie; Bertel, Sven; Montag, Michael; Zander, Steffi – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2020
Spatial skill assessment and training are promising fields of application for tablets, as touch-based interaction can prime and support mental transformations of spatial knowledge. We report on a study with 49 secondary school students who used our iPad app to solve mental and physical rotation tasks. During physical rotation, students were able…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Handheld Devices, Early Adolescents, Problem Solving
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Medina, Richard; Suthers, Daniel – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2013
We analyze the interaction of 3 students working on mathematics problems over several days in a virtual math team. Our analysis traces out how successful collaboration in a later session is contingent upon the work of prior sessions and shows how the development of representational practices is an important aspect of these participants' problem…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Geometry, Secondary School Students, Interaction