Cognition in practice : mind, mathematics, and culture in everyday life Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:401403 L3 - citeulike-article-id:401403 N2 - {In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world", such as that entailed in grocery shopping or dieting, is, like all thinking, shaped by the dynamic encounter between the culturally-endowed mind and its total context, a subtle interaction that shapes both the human subject and the world within which it acts.} SN - 0521357349 TI - Cognition in practice : mind, mathematics, and culture in everyday life PB - Cambridge University Press KW - cognition KW - education KW - learning KW - mathematics AU - Lave, Jean PY - 1988/07/29/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0521357349 ER -