Abstract
Abstract Ideas about data processing seem to inhabit a no‐man's‐land between the territory of science and the territory of mathematics. In the former they appear out of nowhere as from a conjurer's hat to do particular tasks such as to shed light on reaction kinetics. In the latter they often are given a context in science such as accounting for the motions of uniformly accelerated bodies where their performance is seen at its most elegant, and then the mathematician moves swiftly away before the dirtiness of reality diverts the pupil too much from the mathematical principles involved. In this paper, I intend to raid the world of social science for notions of data processing which are there commonplace on behalf of the pupils learning science in schools, and from psychology to import a style of thinking about the process of thinking which may be of use to their teachers as they develop new curricular approaches in the Secondary Science Curriculum Review. Essentially the paper starts with the assumption th...
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