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Intuition in Science and Mathematics An Educational Approach /

In writing the present book I have had in mind the following objectives: - To propose a theoretical, comprehensive view of the domain of intuition. - To identify and organize the experimental findings related to intuition scattered in a wide variety of research contexts. - To reveal the educational...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fischbein, Efraim. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
Series:Mathematics Education Library ; 5
Subjects:
Education.
Mathematics > Study and teaching.
Mathematics Education.
Online Access:View fulltext via EzAccess
Table of Contents:
  • The Theory
  • Intuition and the Need for Certitude
  • Intuition and Mathematical Reasoning
  • Investigations in Overconfidence
  • General Characteristics of Intuitive Cognitions
  • The Classification of Intuitions
  • Inferential Intuitions and Logical Reasoning
  • Factors which Shape Intuitions
  • Intuition and Experience
  • The Practicalyty of Intuitive Meanings, Analysis of an Example: The Negative Numbers
  • Factors of Immediacy
  • Factors of Globality
  • Intuition and Intuitive Models
  • Models and Analogies
  • Paradigmatic Models
  • Diagrammatic Models
  • Phenomenological Primitives
  • Conflicts and Compromises
  • Factors of Perseverance and Closure: The Primacy Effect
  • Summary and Didactical Implications.

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