Playing with representations: How do kids make use of quantitative representations in video games?

International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 179-206

  Satwicz, Tom ^a   Stevens, Reed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Disciplined perception; Distributed cognition; Ethnography; Everyday mathematics; Learning; Representations; Video games

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; VIDEO RECORDING;

DISCIPLINED PERCEPTION; DISTRIBUTED COGNITION; ETHNOGRAPHY; EVERYDAY MATHEMATICS; LEARNING; REPRESENTATIONS; VIDEO GAMES;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 61349165498     PISSN: 13823892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10758-008-9138-2     Document Type: Article

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