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The Problem of Conceptual Understanding

2015
This 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, 2011
Crime 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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Developing Conceptual Understanding

2016
Despite 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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Disagreement and Conceptual Understanding

Theoria, 2018
AbstractDoes 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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Towards a better understanding of conceptual difficulties in introductory quantum physics courses

Studies in Science Education, 2022
Birgit Pepin, Tim Bouchée, Marieke Thurlings   +2 more
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Teaching for Conceptual Understanding

2014
The 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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The Effect of the Conceptual Change Model on Conceptual Understanding of Electrostatics

Education Sciences, 2022
Andrea C Burrows Borowczak, Johannes Addido   +1 more
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Conceptual Tools for Understanding Nature

Conceptual Tools for Understanding Nature, 1993
G. Costa, G. Calucci, M. Giorgi
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Conceptual Understanding

Physics Today, 1985
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Conceptual Understanding of Text

1991
In 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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