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Download full textMason, John – 2002
This paper discusses ways to use worked examples in teaching mathematics. It is argued that neither investigative teaching such as discovery learning nor lecturing and starting from the abstract are helpful as they are based on emotive associations with general labels rather than precise details of pedagogic strategies. (KHR)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Formal Operations
