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Intuition in science and mathematics : an educational approach /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fischbein, Efraim, 1920-1998
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©2002.
Series:Mathematics education library ; v. 5.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intuition and the need for certitude
  • Intuition and mathematical reasoning
  • Investigations in overconfidence
  • General characteristics of intuitive cognitions
  • The classification of intuitions
  • Inferential intuitions and logical reasoning
  • Intuitions and experience
  • The practicality of intuitive meanings. Analysis of an example: the negative numbers
  • Factors of immediacy
  • Factors of globality
  • Intuition and intuitive models
  • Models and analogies
  • Paradigmatic models
  • Diagrammatic models
  • Phenomenological primitives
  • Conflicts and compromises
  • Factors of perseverance and closure: the primacy effect
  • Summary and didactical implications.