Cognitive Science and Mathematics Education

by Alan H. Schoenfeld

Book Overview

This volume is a result of mathematicians, cognitive scientists, mathematics educators, and classroom teachers combining their efforts to help address issues of importance to classroom instruction in mathematics. In so doing, the contributors provide a general introduction to fundamental ideas in cognitive science, plus an overview of cognitive theory and its direct implications for mathematics education. A practical, no-nonsense attempt to bring...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805800573
• ISBN13: 9780805800579
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"