NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Leavy, Aisling; Hourigan, Mairéad – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2015
The context of students as architects is used to examine the similarities and differences between prisms and pyramids. Leavy and Hourigan use the Van Hiele Model as a tool to support teachers to develop expectations for differentiating geometry in the classroom using practical examples.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Architecture, Teaching Methods, Geometric Concepts
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Hermens, Frouke; Luksys, Gediminas; Gerstner, Wulfram; Herzog, Michael H.; Ernst, Udo – Psychological Review, 2008
Visual backward masking is a versatile tool for understanding principles and limitations of visual information processing in the human brain. However, the mechanisms underlying masking are still poorly understood. In the current contribution, the authors show that a structurally simple mathematical model can explain many spatial and temporal…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Visual Perception, Brain, Information Processing
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Cohen, Andrew L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
Some potential contributions of invariants, heuristics, and exemplars to the perception of dynamic properties in the colliding balls task were explored. On each trial, an observer is asked to determine the heavier of 2 colliding balls. The invariant approach assumes that people can learn to detect complex visual patterns that reliably specify…
Descriptors: Memory, Mathematical Models, Visual Perception, Heuristics