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Hershkowitz, Rina; Hadas, Nurit; Dreyfus, Tommy; Schwarz, Baruch – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2007
A model for processes of abstraction, based on epistemic actions, has been proposed elsewhere. Here we apply this model to processes in which groups of individual students construct shared knowledge and consolidate it. The data emphasizes the interactive flow of knowledge from one student to the others in the group, until they reach a shared…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Processes, Probability, Epistemology
Dreyfus, Tommy; And Others – 1997
This exploratory study had two goals: (1) to identify signs of abstraction and consolidation of abstractions of functional concepts in students in a situation-based curriculum; and (2) to use theoretical arguments as well as experimental evidence in order to shape notions of abstraction and consolidation of abstractions. The methodology was…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Concept Formation