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Exploration in Coinland

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Computer Assisted Learning (ICCAL 1989)

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Coinland is a meaning-oriented approach to facilitating the learning of arithmetic principles. Algorithms based on those principles, such as those used to carry out operations like milti-digit subtraction, emerge for the student through a process of guided exploration, rather than inculcation. The visual representation is applicable to topics from counting to elementary division. This paper treats only subtraction. An alternative visual representation, Numberland, facilitates the important transfer of concepts for use outside the computer environment.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, 22030, Fairfax, VA

    Henry Hamburger & Akhtar Lodgher

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Hermann Maurer

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Hamburger, H., Lodgher, A. (1989). Exploration in Coinland. In: Maurer, H. (eds) Computer Assisted Learning. ICCAL 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 360. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51142-3_58

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