Skip to content

Catalog

You are not logged in |Login

Add to My Lists

More Information

Limit search to available items

Previous Record Next Record

Book Cover

book

Book

Book

Title The nature of mathematical thinking / edited by Robert J. Sternberg and Talia Ben-Zeev.

Publication Info.

Mahwah, NJ : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1996.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	153.42 N285N	Check Shelf

Description	xiv, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series	Studies in mathematical thinking and learning series
	Studies in mathematical thinking and learning.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents	Mathematical abilities: some results from factor analysis / John B. Carroll -- The Process of understanding mathematical problems / Richard E. Mayer and Mary Hegarty -- When erroneous mathematical thinking is just as 'correct': the oxymoron of rational errors / Talia Ben-Zeev -- On the shoulders of giants: cultural tools and mathematical development / Kevin F. Miller and David R. Paredes -- Culture and children's mathematical thinking / Geoffrey B. Saxe [et al.] -- Biology, culture, and cross-national differences in mathematical ability / David C. Geary -- Toby's math / Herbert P. Ginsburg -- Fostering mathematical thinking in middle school students: lessons from research / John D. Bransford [et al.] -- On different facets of mathematical thinking / Tommy Dreyfus and Theodore Eisenberg -- Structuralism and mathematical thinking / Charles Rickart -- What is mathematical thinking? / Robert J. Sternberg.
Subject	Mathematical ability.
	Mathematical ability -- Cross-cultural studies.
	Number concept in children.
	Number concept in children -- Cross-cultural studies.
	Human information processing.
	Cognitive psychology.
Added Author	Sternberg, Robert J.
	Ben-Zeev, Talia.
ISBN	0805817980 cloth alkaline paper
	0805817999 paperback alkaline paper

-->

Library Links

Search Tools

Language Settings

English
Español