Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life by Jean Lave

Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life

Jean Lave

232 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics psychology informative reflective medium-paced
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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"...

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