Using static and dynamic visualisations to support the comprehension of complex dynamic phenomena in the natural sciences

Use of Representations in Reasoning and Problem Solving: Analysis and Improvement

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 153-168

  Gerjets, Peter ^a   Imhof, Birgit ^a   Kühl, Tim ^a   Pfeiffer, Vanessa ^b   Scheiter, Katharina ^b   Gemballa, Sven ^b  

^a KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203847824     Document Type: Chapter

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