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"three principles that are emerging from cross-disciplinary work: learning is computational, learning is social, and learning is supported by brain circuits linking perception and action that connect people to one another.

Learning and remembering cannot occur simultaneously

"Lessons that enable students to consciously think about the connection between what they learned before and what they are learning now"

where math learning occurs in the brain

more from Queensland

cognitive neuroscience & math

How Humans Learn to Think Mathematically

social interaction and math learning in the "strategy reporting classroom --\nThe increasing demand on student thinking and the expectation for social interaction is the basis upon which meaning making, individual and collective, is accomplished in the class and represents a link between student cognition and classroom social processes.

Math Tools is a project of The Math Forum @ Drexel, funded in part by the National Science Foundation. The goal is to create a community digital library that supports the use and development of software for mathematics education. We began work in September of 2002 and through the help of many people there is already an active and rich resource center.\n\nYou are the key. The point is to enable users to help each other use technology effectively in the math classroom. By sharing our experiences, activities, comments, and needs, we can help each other find tools that are known to work well and learn how to use them and improve them. Teachers, students, researchers, publishers, and software developers are all working together in Math Tools

Very technical -- but interesting research "It is well established that children, adults, and nonhuman animals share a basic ability to perceive and compare nonsymbolic quantities of items, commonly referred to as "numerosity." Symbolic numerical representations build on these basic abilities to enable human children and adults to use precise number words, symbols, and linguistic quantifiers"