Making the abstract concrete: Visualizing mathematical solution procedures

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 9-25

  Scheiter, Katharina ^a   Gerjets, Peter ^b   Catrambone, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animation; Cognitive load; Imagery; Pictures; Problem solving; Skill acquisition; Visualizations; Worked out examples

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COGNITIVE LOAD; IMAGERY; SKILL ACQUISITION; VISUALIZATIONS; WORKED-OUT EXAMPLES;

CONCRETES;

EID: 25844518678     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2005.01.009     Document Type: Article

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