Presentation
The hammer-and-nail phenomenon in mathematics education
(2012)
Abstract
"For a person with a hammer, everything looks like a nail" is a proverb that can be used to highlight the phenomenon that students tend to rely on familiar ideas as opposed to taking time to think about and analyse a problem. Presented in this theoretical paper is the usefulness of the hammer-and-nail metaphor, other related theoretical constructs, pedagogical causes of student impulsive behaviours, and pedagogical suggestions for addressing them.
Keywords
- impulsive disposition,
- Einstellung effect,
- spurious correlation,
- intuitive rule,
- cognitive tempo
Disciplines
Publication Date
July, 2012
Citation Information
Kien H Lim. "The hammer-and-nail phenomenon in mathematics education" (2012) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kien_lim/25/