Teachers and lecturers can improve this abstract thinking by being aware of abstractions in their subject and learning to demonstrate abstract concepts through concrete examples.

In the first experiment, 80 undergrads were taught the concepts either using solely abstract symbols, or through one, two, or even three concrete examples. When tested on the children's game, the ...

They said students who were taught abstract math concepts fared better in experiments than those taught with real-world examples, such as story problems.

After learning this math concept using the concrete examples or abstract, generic symbols, the students took a multiple-choice quiz demonstrating that they learned the principles involved.

They said students who were taught abstract math concepts fared better in experiments than those taught with real-world examples, such as story problems.

There’s strong evidence that students need both explicit and systematic instruction to develop automaticity in using basic math facts and to learn how foundational concepts connect. How students ...

For their study, Kaminski and her colleagues taught 80 undergraduate students—split into four 20-person groups—a new mathematical system (based on several simple arithmetic concepts) in ...

The appeal to science students and young tech workers is that math concepts take shape in the dance patterns. Square dancing incorporates permutations, fractions and operators, to name a few. Levine, ...