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Cognition in Practice Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life

Paperback • 1988 • English • 1. edition

Cognition in Practice Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life

By Jean Lave

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About the book

Most previous research on human cognition has focused on problem-solving, and has confined its investigations to the laboratory. As a result, it has been difficult to account for complex mental processes and their place in culture and history. In this startling - indeed, disco in forting - study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity, - arithmetic problem-solving - out of the laboratory into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics i...Show more

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9780521357340

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

1988

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Cognition in Practice Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life

Format

Paperback

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