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Transformations.

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Nicodemus, Robert – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1993

Focuses on the themes of self-image and change while interpreting video excerpts from two video cassettes that illustrate the excitement and problems of teaching mathematics. Excerpts involve concrete and abstract representations of transformations. (MDH)

Descriptors: Educational Television, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Mathematics Education

Intuitively Misconceived Solutions to Problems.

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Avital, Shmuel; Barbeau, Edward J. – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1991

Presents 13 examples in which the intuitive approach to solve the problem is often misleading. Presents analysis of these problems for five different sources of misleading intuitive generators: lack of analysis, unbalanced perception, improper analogy, improper generalization, and misuse of symmetry. (MDH)

Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Generalization, Geometric Concepts