When Old Town High School Math Teacher Kristen Thompson uses TriO—a virtual reality environment developed by researchers at ...

“The nail and hammer are fundamental to the manufacture of chairs, tables, stools, cabinets, and other varied items. So are certain ‘Mathematical Formulas or Relationships’ to the solution of diverse ...

Scientists explore the physics of how polarization-filtered colors emerge, how they can be controlled, and why subtle changes in viewing angle, sample orientation, and the order of layers of films ...

A new study challenges the common practice in many classrooms of teaching mathematical concepts by using "real-world," concrete examples. Researchers found that college students who learned a ...

The author tries to show some causes of failures in the creation of mathematical concepts. One of them is stiffening of concept cores. It makes impossible identification of untypical exemplars of a ...

Video produced by Maria Bartholdi. Emily Lynch goes through life looking for patterns. During the day, Lynch works for a math publishing company in Minneapolis, training teachers to use materials that ...

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Nov., 1974), pp. 197-211 (15 pages) The effects of negative instances on the acquisition of the mathematical concepts of commutativity and ...

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In the basement of the North Branch Library in Nashville, Tenn., on a recent Saturday, you could hear alternating murmurs of excitement and exasperation over the soft clicking of needles. A small ...