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Download full textSolter, Aletha; Mayer, Richard E. – 1977
These experiments tested the hypothesis that an instructional strategy involving guided discovery will promote meaningful learning of problem solving concepts by activating an assimilative set during learning. In order to investigate the effect of discovery training and concrete manipulation, preschool children were given training in one to one…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Learning, Memory, Number Concepts
