Full Text (PDF)
Abstract
There are diverse ways to construct instructional activities that teachers can use to foster their students’ development of mathematical thinking. It is argued that the use of computational tools offers teachers the possibility of designing and exploring mathematical tasks from distinct perspectives that might lead their students to the reconstruction of mathematical relations. In particular, a task that involves the construction of a simple dynamic configuration is used to introduce an inquisitive approach to identify mathematical conjectures or relations and ways to explore and support them. In this process, a hypothetical instructional route is sketched where visual, numeric, geometric, and algebraic approaches are utilized to validate those conjectures.
License
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Article Type: Research Article
EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, Volume 4, Issue 4, 2008, 347-357
https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/75361
Publication date: 22 Dec 2008
Article Views: 1545
Article Downloads: 837
Open Access References How to cite this article