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Direct linkRadinsky, Josh – Cognition and Instruction, 2008
Learning science includes learning to argue with "inscriptions": images used to symbolize information persuasively. This study examined sixth-graders learning to invest inscriptions with representational status, in a geographic information system (GIS)-based science investigation. Learning to reason with inscriptions was studied in emergent…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Cognitive Development, Plate Tectonics, Science Instruction
Peer reviewedMeira, Luciano – Cognition and Instruction, 1995
Discusses children's design of mathematical representations on paper. Suggests that the design of displays during problem solving shapes one's mathematical activity and sense making in crucial ways, and that knowledge of mathematical representations is not simply recalled and applied to problem solving, but also emerges out of one's interactions…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Instructional Materials
