Fadil Santosa, University of Minnesota Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics are generally aimed at third- and fourth-year undergraduate mathematics s. udents at North American universities. …

Understanding can be understood in different ways. An empirical inquiry might use experiments, interviews, surveys, and the like to uncover the mechanisms that make understanding …

Sophisticated and apt explanation and theories that provide knowledge and justified accounts of events, actions and ideas. Why is this so? What explains such events? What accounts for …

The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at distance and make it its own object.

“The Six Facets of Understanding” give us categories that help make it easier to recognize student understanding. Each facet helps enforce the idea that students must use their …

In Bruner's famous phrase, understanding is about “going beyond the information given”; we can create new knowledge and arrive at further understandings if we have learned with …

While knowledge and skill can be translated as information and routine performance on tap, understanding slips by these simple standards. So what is understanding? In a phrase, …