Cognitive Science and Mathematics Education

<p>This volume is a result of mathematicians cognitive scientists mathematics educators and classroom teachers combining their efforts to help address issues of importance to classroom instruction in mathematics. In so doing the contributors provide a general introduction to fundamental ideas in cognitive science plus an overview of cognitive theory and its direct implications for mathematics education. A practical no-nonsense attempt to bring recent research within reach for practicing teachers this book also raises many issues for cognitive researchers to consider.</p>