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Problem Solving Activity in the Workplace and the School: The Case of Constructing Solids.

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Jurdak, Murad; Shahin, Iman – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2001

Documents, compares, and analyzes the nature of spatial reasoning by practitioners (plumbers) in the workplace and students in the school setting while constructing solids, with given specifications, from plane surfaces. Results confirm the power of activity theory and its methodology in explaining and identifying the structural differences…

Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Mathematical Applications, Mathematics, Plumbing

Too Much Is Not Enough: Teaching Maths through Useful Applications with Local and Global Perspectives.

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Alsina, Claudi – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2002

Explores the challenge of providing all future citizens with an appropriate quantitative literacy by means of teaching mathematics through useful applications with local and global perspectives. (Author/KHR)

Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Global Education, Hands on Science