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Speiser, Bob; Walter, Chuck – Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 2011
This paper explores how models can support productive thinking. For us a model is a "thing", a tool to help make sense of something. We restrict attention to specific models for whole-number multiplication, hence the wording of the title. They support evolving thinking in large measure through the ways their users redesign them. They assume new…
Descriptors: Models, Productive Thinking, Concept Formation, Fundamental Concepts
Transparency Master: Methodology as a Guide in Good Design
Lindbeck, John R. – Industrial Education, 1972
The role played by methodology and the routes'' it takes in planning a design. (Editor)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Conceptual Schemes, Creative Activities, Design
Conceptualizing Creativity in Three Dimensions.
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McMullan, W. E.; Stocking, J. R. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1978
A questionnaire for focusing college student attention upon the subtleties implicit in a three-dimensional model of creativity is presented. (BD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Conceptual Schemes, Creative Thinking
The Construction of a New Point of View
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Gruber, Howard E. – Urban Review, 1975
Explores how thinking is organized, drawing upon the development of Darwin's thought from varying time perspectives. The struggle for coherence and identity in theory construction is seen as a dual process: that of an intutitive contact with the material and an abstract purposefulness and perspective. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Conceptual Schemes, Creative Thinking