This paper concerns a study of the performance of students in a linear algebra examination. Differences in performance of tasks requiring understanding of concepts with those that required only the use of routine procedures and factual recall were investigated. Central to the study was the use of a taxonomy based on Bloom's Taxonomy for…

This book, with accompanying CD-ROMs, was written to help readers understand children's intuitive mathematical thinking and use that knowledge to help children learn mathematics with understanding. Based on more than twenty years of research, this book portrays the development of children's understanding of basic number concepts. Detailed…

Planning interdisciplinary education requires attention to the steps by which a student can learn to look at a problem in a more complex fashion, to coordinate perspectives and to synthesize these into a more integrated understanding. (Author)

Author suggests that variations in the functioning of imagination result in variations in mental aptitudes and expressions and expressions, and these variations serve as a guide, according to which the scope of an individual mind may be recognized. (Author/RK)

In general, this cross-sectional validation study supports Inhelder and Piaget's claims about the development of concepts of volume and density more easily than younger subjects. (Author/WY)

The construct of conservation, as presently studied in dichotomous form (i.e., Conservers vs. Nonconservers), may be a convenient fiction, but that is all it is. There seems to be great need to treat this dimension as the continuous variable it really is. (Authors)

Purpose of the study is to test Piaget's hypothesis of a parallel relationship between moral concepts and logical structures in human development. (Author)

Summarizes the problems with the title The Journal of Typographic Research and the reasons for its change to Visible Language. Reviews the role of writing, including vision, as the area of communication between the linguistic and graphic realms. (MB)

Author describes in vernacular terms how a faculty adopts the systems Approach, and makes pertinent suggestions. (Editor/IR)