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Introduction to the Special Issue: Modeling as Application versus Modeling as a Way to Create Mathematics

Introduction to the Special Issue: Modeling as Application versus Modeling as a Way to Create... Int J Comput Math Learning (2007) 12:173–194 DOI 10.1007/s10758-007-9121-3 Introduction to the Special Issue: Modeling as Application versus Modeling as a Way to Create Mathematics Richard Lesh Æ Beth Caylor Published online: 8 December 2007 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007 This special issue of IJCML is dedicated to our good friend and colleague, Jim Kaput. In many ways, each article was inspired by collaborations that involved Jim; and, they also are examples of some of the most important directions that Kaput’s research was moving at the time of his untimely death. For example, the article by Lehrer, Kim, and Schauble emphasizes ways that expressive media (which may vary from technical languages, to paper-and-pencil notations and sketches, to computer-based tools for communication, collaboration, and conceptualization) shape and empower the ways that people think. The article by Konold, Harradine, and Kazak emphasizes Kaput’s longstanding mission to use technology to provide all children with democratic access to powerful ideas; and, the article by Lesh, Caylor, and Gupta emphasizes the infrastructural nature of the preceding kinds of conceptual tools. That is, the conceptual tools that humans develop to make sense of their experiences typically have both expanding and constraining influences on thinking; and, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png "Technology, Knowledge and Learning" Springer Journals

Introduction to the Special Issue: Modeling as Application versus Modeling as a Way to Create Mathematics

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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2007 by Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
Subject
Education; Learning and Instruction; Mathematics Education; Educational Technology; Science Education; Creativity and Arts Education
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2211-1662
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1573-1766
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10.1007/s10758-007-9121-3
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Int J Comput Math Learning (2007) 12:173–194 DOI 10.1007/s10758-007-9121-3 Introduction to the Special Issue: Modeling as Application versus Modeling as a Way to Create Mathematics Richard Lesh Æ Beth Caylor Published online: 8 December 2007 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007 This special issue of IJCML is dedicated to our good friend and colleague, Jim Kaput. In many ways, each article was inspired by collaborations that involved Jim; and, they also are examples of some of the most important directions that Kaput’s research was moving at the time of his untimely death. For example, the article by Lehrer, Kim, and Schauble emphasizes ways that expressive media (which may vary from technical languages, to paper-and-pencil notations and sketches, to computer-based tools for communication, collaboration, and conceptualization) shape and empower the ways that people think. The article by Konold, Harradine, and Kazak emphasizes Kaput’s longstanding mission to use technology to provide all children with democratic access to powerful ideas; and, the article by Lesh, Caylor, and Gupta emphasizes the infrastructural nature of the preceding kinds of conceptual tools. That is, the conceptual tools that humans develop to make sense of their experiences typically have both expanding and constraining influences on thinking; and,

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Published: Dec 8, 2007

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