Collaboration aids learning of mathematical elaboration skills but not procedural skills¶
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q2 i? By differentiating math tasks involving reasoning from those stressing practice, the study showed collaboration aids learning of elaboration skills but not procedural skills. → Gerry Stahl & Friedrich W. Hesse & Nancy Law 2011
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Gerry Stahl & Friedrich W. Hesse & Nancy Law 2011¶
Gerry Stahl & Friedrich W. Hesse & Nancy Law. (2011). Tweets from #cscl2011. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-011-9128-6
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The editorial reports, citing Mullins, Rummel and Spada, a study of collaborative mathematics. It explains the finding via Vygotsky's zone of proximal development: collaboration can lead to long-term conceptual gains when the task is just beyond individual mastery level.
"By differentiating math tasks involving reasoning from those stressing practice, they rigorously showed that collaboration aids in the learning of elaboration skills but not in the learning of procedural skills."
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Collaboration aids learning of mathematical elaboration skills but not procedural skills |
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Collaboration aids learning of mathematical elaboration skills but not procedural skills |
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