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The Importance of Math Manipulatives: A Math Playground

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The researchers found that the style of drawing and mental model used to solve the problem was highly predictive of whether the student was able to find the faster way to solve the problem or not. The researchers suggested that the analysis of diagrams and other visualizations should be considered as a useful teaching approach.

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Why Education Is a ‘Wicked Problem’ for Learning Engineers to Solve

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In a recent conversation with EdSurge, Goel discussed how learning engineering researchers are applying artificial intelligence to help make high-quality education accessible, affordable and effective on a grand scale. So what the virtual experimentation research assistant allows you to do— VERA —is to generate ideas and test them.