The Mechanism of Restructuring in Geometry

Abstract

Restructuring consists of a change in the representation of the current search state, a process which breaks an impasse during problem solving by opening up new search paths. A corpus of 52 think-aloud protocols from the domain of geometry was scanned for evidence of restructuring. The data suggest that restructuring is accomplished by re-parsing the geometric diagram. Keywords: Searching, Geometry, Applied mechanics.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA225552

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