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Direct linkFalk, Ruma – Cognition and Instruction, 2010
To conceive the infinity of integers, one has to realize: (a) the unending possibility of increasing/decreasing numbers (potential infinity), (b) that the cardinality of the set of numbers is greater than that of any finite set (actual infinity), and (c) that the leap from a finite to an infinite set is itself infinite (immeasurable gap). Three…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Experiments, Children, Adults
Wade-Stein, David; Kintsch, Eileen – Cognition and Instruction, 2004
Summary Street is educational software based on latent semantic analysis (LSA), a computer method for representing the content of texts. The classroom trial described here demonstrates the power of LSA to support an educational goal by providing automatic feedback on the content of students' summaries. Summary Street provides this feedback in an…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Software, Writing Skills, Writing Instruction
Polman, Joseph L. – Cognition and Instruction, 2004
Activity structures such as classroom lessons and initiation-reply-evaluation sequences are important cultural tools that help students and teachers accomplish everyday activity, but they are not well adapted to open-ended inquiry conducted by students in small groups with teacher guidance. In this research, I identified alternative activity…
Descriptors: Teacher Guidance, Earth Science, Student Projects, Teaching Methods
