Mathematics underachievers learning spatial knowledge
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The relegation of spatial knowledge to a subordinate position has particular implications for examining mathematics underachievement. First, most of use have observed in our teaching that some mathematics underachievers (that is, those who have difficulty comprehending numerical ideas) can comprehend elementary spatial concepts but because they lack fluency in number they cannot make sense of the relationships to be developed. Second, you have probably observed that other more able mathematics students (that is, those who do not have difficulty comprehending numerical ideas) have difficulty comprehending spatial concepts and are secure learning spatial knowledge only when the ideas are expressed in numerical terms.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006