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Download full textSweller, John; Clark, Richard E.; Kirschner, Paul A. – American Educator, 2011
Recent "reform" curricula both ignore the absence of supporting data and completely misunderstand the role of problem solving in cognition. If, the argument goes, teachers are not really teaching people mathematics but rather are teaching them some form of general problem solving, then mathematical content can be reduced in importance. According…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Problem Solving, Long Term Memory
