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Direct linkCheek, Kim A. – Research in Science Education, 2017
Ideas about temporal (and spatial) scale impact students' understanding across science disciplines. Learners have difficulty comprehending the long time periods associated with natural processes because they have no referent for the magnitudes involved. When people have a good "feel" for quantity, they estimate cardinal number magnitude…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Concepts, Science Education, Spatial Ability
Stafford, Pat – Mathematics Teaching, 2011
Having decided to spend some time looking at one's understanding of numbers, the author was inspired by "Alex's Adventures in Numberland," by Alex Bellos to look at one's innate appreciation of number. Bellos quotes research studies suggesting that an individual's natural appreciation of numbers is more likely to be exponential rather…
Descriptors: Numbers, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Number Concepts
