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Volume 40 , Issue 2 (June 2008) table of contents

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Pages 40-43

Year of Publication: 2008

ISSN:0097-8418

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Orit Hazzan

Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This essay relies on my research works about abstraction conducted over the past decade. It addresses the importance of increasing students' awareness to the concept of abstraction and other soft ideas and suggests several approaches for the teaching of soft ideas in general and of the concept of abstraction in particular.

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