European and Chinese Cognitive Styles and Their Impact on Teaching Mathematics

• Main Authors: Spagnolo, Filippo (Author), Paola, Benedetto Di (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 277
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Chinese language.; Psycholinguistics.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Computational intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Applications of Mathematics.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Mathematics Education.; Chinese.

The book provides strong evidence that research on the cognitive processes from arithmetic thought to algebraic thought should take into consideration the socio-cultural context. It is an important contribution to the literature on linguistic structure in comparative studies related to Chinese stude...