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Peer reviewedGordon, Marshall – Mathematics Teacher, 1991
Counterintuitive moments in the classroom challenge common sense and practice and can be used to help mathematics students appreciate the need to explore, reflect, and reason. Proposed are four examples involving geometry, systems of equations, and matrices as counterintuitive instances. (MDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Geometric Concepts, Intuition
