Foundations of Embodied Learning advances learning, instruction, and the design of
educational technologies by rethinking the learner as an integrated system of mind, body …

Analogical reasoning, the ability to understand phenomena as systems of structured
relationships that can be aligned, compared, and mapped together, plays a fundamental …

Even at young ages, children self-report experiencing math anxiety, which negatively relates
to their math achievement. Leveraging a large dataset of first and second grade students' …

Mathematical competence rests on develo** knowledge of concepts and of procedures (ie
conceptual and procedural knowledge). Although there is some variability in how these …

The study of human learning continues to develop and expand. As researchers from various
theoretical traditions test their ideas and hypotheses in basic and applied settings, their …

A common intuition is that instruction is most effective if it takes into account (a) that learners
are different, and (b) that they change as they learn. But learners differ in a great many ways …

Being told procedures and concepts before problem solving can inadvertently undermine
the learning of deep structures in physics. If students do not learn the underlying structure of …

Over the past 20 years, there has been much research on how people learn from case
comparisons. This work has implemented comparison activities in a variety of different ways …

Spatial thinking--such as visualizing the earth rotating--is crucial to student success in
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Since spatial thinking is …

A long tradition of research on mathematical thinking has focused on procedural knowledge,
or knowledge of how to solve problems and enact procedures. In recent years, however …