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Disagreement and Conceptual Understanding
Theoria, 2018AbstractDoes the epistemology of disagreement have significant consequences for theories of conceptual understanding? I argue that it does. I argue that the epistemology of disagreement manifests the existence of a special kind of concept,perspectival modes of metarepresentation, a kind of concept instances of which figure in the thinking about ...
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Developing Conceptual Understanding
2016Despite the commitment to promote equity and excellence in education, significant gaps remain in understanding how students with special educational needs (SEN) learn mathematics. Specifically, how they become competent with fraction ideas, essential skills needed to become numerate and learn higher mathematics, is unclear.
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Conceptual Relativity and Understanding
Journal of Educational Thought / Revue de la Pensée Educative, 2018It is a commonplace observation that our ordinary language provides the resources for a variety of true descriptions of any object, event, or state of affairs. There is no fundamental object - language whereby objects, events, or states of affairs can be described with non - contextually determinate "objectivity": whatsoever descriptions are offered in
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The Problem of Conceptual Understanding
2015This chapter considers one of the most intriguing questions that philosophy of mathematics in practice must, sooner or later, confront: how understanding of mathematics is obtained. In particular, it examines how issues of meaning and understanding in relation to practice and use relate to the question of the acceptability of “classical” or ...
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Crime: A Conceptual Understanding
Indian Journal of Applied Research, 2011Crime is a public wrong. It is an act strongly disapproved by society. Crime includes murder, dacoities, fraud, rape, etc. Each society has its own perspective of defining crime. For commission of crime, there should be a criminal intention and a criminal act. No individual is a born criminal; the criminal intention and behaviour of an individual are a
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Teaching for Conceptual Understanding
2014The terms “ knowledge” and “understanding” are often thought of as synonyms, but there is an important distinction. To know means that one may recall facts and information accurately, but understanding connotes the ability to use information in a flexible fashion in multiple environments and circumstances (McDiarmid et al., 1989).
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Towards a better understanding of conceptual difficulties in introductory quantum physics courses
Studies in Science Education, 2022T Bouchée +2 more
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Physics Students’ Conceptual Understanding of Geometric Optics: Revisited Analysis
Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2021Jean Uwamahoro +2 more
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Conceptual Understanding of Text
1991In this chapter we discuss a variety of methods for computers to understand written English text, and focus on the FRUMP parser developed at Yale by Gerald DeJong [DeJong, G. 79a].
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