The Advantage of Abstract Examples in Learning Math
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- 25 April 2008
- journal article
- education forum
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 320 (5875) , 454-455
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1154659
Abstract
Undergraduate students may benefit more from learning mathematics through a single abstract, symbolic representation than from learning multiple concrete examples.Keywords
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