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Kate Quane; Helen Booth – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2023
The authors define two mathematical cognitive verbs which are fundamental to the development of mathematical thinking and reasoning. They distinguish between 'describing' and 'explaining' in relation to doing mathematics, rather than using them interchangeably.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills, Verbs
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Chan, David; Chua, Fookkee – Cognition, 1994
Argues that the syntactic and mental model accounts of the suppression effect in deductive reasoning are inadequate. Proposes a relative salience model. Describes a test of predictions from this model in a suppression model, which obtained evidence of convergent validity for the salience construct. Results could not be reconciled with either the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Deduction