Exploiting Mental Imagery with Computers in Mathematics Education: (Closed)): 138 - Brossura

 
9783642633508: Exploiting Mental Imagery with Computers in Mathematics Education: (Closed)): 138

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This volume in the NATO Special Programme on Advanced Educational Technology looks at how the computer can support the use of visual images in mathematical problem solving. The authors are from computer science, mathematics, mathematics education, psychology, and design.

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1. Emphasizing the External.- Imagery for diagrams.- External representations in arithmetic problem solving.- Visualisation in mathematics and graphical mediators: an experience with 11-12 year old pupils.- Visual organisers for formal mathematics.- Mediating mathematical action.- Mathematical objects, representations, and imagery.- 2. Imagery in Support of Geometry.- Images and concepts in geometrical reasoning.- Between drawing and figure.- The functions of visualisation in learning geometry.- Geometrical pictures: kinds of representation and specific processings.- 3. Linking Screen and Mental Imagery.- Overcoming physicality and the external present: cybernetic manipulatives.- On visual and symbolic representations.- The dark side of the Moon.- Ruminations about dynamic imagery (and a strong plea for research).- On designing screen images to generate mental images.- Learning as embodied action.- 4. Employing Imagery.- The importance of mental perception when creating research pictures.- Random images on mental images.- Imagery as a tool to assist the teaching of algebra.- Mathematical screen metaphors.- Exploiting mental imaging: reflections of an artist on a mathematical excursion.

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