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Giyoo Hatano's Analysis of Psychological Tools
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Cole, Michael – Human Development, 2007
This paper focuses on the relation between two areas of research which owe a great debt to the work of Giyoo Hatano: the ways in which the use of the abacus mediates arithmetic problem solving and the way in which the use of the kanji writing system mediates the interpretation of unfamiliar words. These examples are related to L. S. Vygotsky's…
Descriptors: Written Language, Problem Solving, Cognitive Psychology, Mathematics