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Download full textGreenfield, Patricia Marks – 1968
Experiments conducted to find ways of teaching two and three year olds mathematical concepts were found to have general implications for concept learning. The failure of an initial attempt to teach the concepts "fat" and "skinny" led to a design of instructional procedures that would utilize a concept's name while trying to teach its semantic…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Conceptual Schemes
