A great example of abstract thinking at work ... to put themselves in other people’s shoes (to use an abstract-thinking metaphor), learning how to empathize. The exercise of empathy is ...

An abstract sentence is a sentence that expresses an idea, concept, or quality rather than something you can see, touch, or ...

You all know the score. A train leaves one city travelling at 35 miles per hour and another races toward it at 25 miles an hour from a city 60 miles away. How long do they take to meet in the middle?

Examples of leveraging technology in K-12 learning showcase ... This fosters experiential learning and makes abstract concepts tangible. Coding programs, like Scratch or Code.org, introduce students ...

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.

For example, infants learning an "ABA" pattern might see a picture of an Alaskan malamute (A) followed by a picture of a German shepherd (B), and finally another Alaskan malamute (A).

For example, we can rapidly work ... that the frontal cortex supports concrete rule learning, the neural mechanisms that underlie acquisition of abstract rules are not as clear.

Feedforward Processes One great example of experiential learning is initiating feedforward ... and processes to dwell on something seemingly abstract. Yet, it is in the abstract connections ...

However, by acknowledging the abstract while situating thinking in the concrete, then we may be able to more realistically shift instructional practice towards a new vision of learning.

Instead, and against all expectations, they were much more likely to transfer their skills if they were taught with abstract rules and symbols. The use of concrete, real-world examples is a deeply ...