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Sandoval, Ivonne; Possani, Edgar – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2016
The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis of the difficulties faced by students when working with different representations of vectors, planes and their intersections in R[superscript 3]. Duval's theoretical framework on semiotic representations is used to design a set of evaluating activities, and later to analyze student work. The…
Descriptors: Models, Semiotics, Undergraduate Students, Higher Education
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Robotti, Elisabetta – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2012
In the field of human cognition, language plays a special role that is connected directly to thinking and mental development (e.g., Vygotsky, "1938"). Thanks to "verbal thought", language allows humans to go beyond the limits of immediately perceived information, to form concepts and solve complex problems (Luria, "1975"). So, it appears language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Plane Geometry, Researchers, Natural Language Processing