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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.

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

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So what the virtual experimentation research assistant allows you to do— VERA —is to generate ideas and test them. and you can generate a model. Now, model simulation tools have been around for a very long time; for at least a generation, if not more. What kind of mental models do humans build of AI agents?