When seeing isn't believing: Influences of prior conceptions and misconceptions

Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1384-1389

  Stampfer, Eliane ^a   Koedinger, Kenneth R ^a  

^a Human Computer Interaction Institute ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

fraction addition; graphical representation; symbolic fractions

Indexed keywords

FRACTION ADDITION; FRACTION EQUIVALENCES; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; PERFORMANCE; SENSE MAKING; SYMBOLIC FRACTION; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85025072292     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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