Generalising the Pattern Rule for Visual Growth Patterns: Actions that Support 8 Year Olds' Thinking

Autor/inn/en	Warren, Elizabeth; Cooper, Tom
Titel	Generalising the Pattern Rule for Visual Growth Patterns: Actions that Support 8 Year Olds' Thinking
Quelle	In: Educational Studies in Mathematics, 67 (2008) 2, S.171-185 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1954
DOI	10.1007/s10649-007-9092-2
Schlagwörter	Age; Children; Algebra; Data Interpretation; Relationship; Abstract Reasoning + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Alter; Lebensalter; Child; Kind; Kinder; Data evaluation; Datenauswertung; Wechselbeziehung; Abstraktes Denken; Denken
Abstract	A common approach used for introducing algebra to young adolescents is an exploration of visual growth patterns and expressing these patterns as functions and algebraic expressions. Past research has indicated that many adolescents experience difficulties with this approach. This paper explores teaching actions and thinking that begins to bridge many of these difficulties at an early age. A teaching experiment was conducted with two classes of students with an average age of eight years and six months. From the results it appears that young students are capable not only of thinking about the relationship between two data sets, but also of expressing this relationship in a very abstract form. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10