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Peer reviewedDoll, William E., Jr. – Educational Leadership, 1989
Applies complexity theory, a movement in contemporary physics, to instruction of a sixth-grade math class. The mathematical chaos theory, embracing random and nonlinear patterning, contradicts the reductionist, particularist, and atomistic view commonly applied to science and teaching. Fractals and self-organization are similarly powerful,…
Descriptors: Chaos Theory, Elementary Education, Grade 6, Instructional Innovation
