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Peer reviewedBussi, Maria G. Bartolini; Mariotti, Maria Alessandra – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1999
Presents an exploratory study with expert university students to determine how students could reseal the rupture and restore a sense of unity between the figural and conceptual components of conic sections. Suggests certain tools of semiotic mediation which could be introduced to enable students to achieve the conceptual oversight that is possibly…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, College Mathematics, Geometric Concepts, Higher Education
Peer reviewedOtte, Michael – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1990
Compared and contrasted are the concepts intuition and logic. The ideas of conceptual thought and algorithmic thought are discussed in terms of the world as a labyrinth, intuition and time, and the structure of knowledge. (KR)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Algorithms, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes
