Studying cognition through time in a classroom community: The interplay between 'everyday' and 'scientific concepts'

Human Development

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 5-44

  Saxe, Geoffrey B ^a   De Kirby, Kenton ^a   Kang, Bona ^a   Le, Marie ^a   Schneider, Alyse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom practices; Embodied cognition; Everyday concepts; Longitudinal analysis; Mathematical cognition; Mathematics education; Number line; Scientific concepts

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMMUNITY; COMPREHENSION; COORDINATION; CURRICULUM; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MATHEMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPECIALIZATION; TEACHING; TIME;

EID: 84928491919     PISSN: 0018716X     EISSN: 14230054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000371560     Document Type: Article

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