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Download full textDogan-Dunlap, Hamide; Torres, Cristina; Chen, Fan – Online Submission, 2005
The paper provides a college mathematics student's concept maps, definitions, and essays to support the thesis that language-based prior knowledge can influence students' cognitive processes of mathematical concepts. A group of intermediate algebra students who displayed terms mainly from the spoken language on the first and the second concept…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Essays, Cognitive Processes, Speech
