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Created: July 22, 2003
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Visualization as an Aid To Learning and Understanding

Site Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors, July 2003.
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An important part of Vygotsky's difference with Piaget was that he was convinced that children could be taught to speed up cognitive stage acquisition by visualizing the concepts concretely. Bruner carried through much of his experimental work, based on such concrete visualization. And example: Constructive Theory (Jerome Bruner) From Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database By Greg Kearsley.

"This example is taken from Bruner (1973): "The concept of prime numbers appears to be more readily grasped when the child, through construction, discovers that certain handfuls of beans cannot be laid out in completed rows and columns. Such quantities have either to be laid out in a single file or in an incomplete row-column design in which there is always one extra or one too few to fill the pattern. These patterns, the child learns, happen to be called prime. It is easy for the child to go from this step to the recognition that a multiple table , so called, is a record sheet of quantities in completed mutiple rows and columns. Here is factoring, multiplication and primes in a construction that can be visualized."