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Treating Estimation and Mental Computation as Situated Mathematical Processes.
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Silver, Edward A. – 1990
This paper discusses the central thesis that new research on estimation and mental computation will benefit from more focused attention on the situations in which they are used. In the first section of the paper, a brief discussion of cognitive theory, with special attention to the emerging notion of situated cognition is presented. Three sources…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Context Effect, Division