Active comparison as a means of promoting the development of abstract conditional knowledge and appropriate choice of diagrams in math word problem solving

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4045 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 181-195

  Uesaka, Yuri ^a   Manalo, Emmanuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; INSTRUCTION CONDITIONS; MATH WORD PROBLEMS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33746210277     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11783183_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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