Reflections from a Learning Setting Designed to Investigate Mathematical Thinking
Journal Title: International Journal of Educational Studies in Mathematics (IJESIM) - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
In this study, it is aimed to describe mathematical thinking of teacher candidates in an adidactic learning setting. To be able to reach this aim, five stages of an adidactic learning setting were considered which were presented by Brousseau (2002) in a problem statement. The research was conducted with 30 students who were studying at second grade of primary mathematics education program at a state university, 2012-2013 academic year. As data collective tool; video records of learning setting, field notes of researchers and papers involve explanations of participants pertain to problem. During activity, participants were handed out pens and paper so as to record their thinking process completely. At the end of the study it was observed that adidactic learning setting supported participants and researchers to uncover their mathematical thinking process. Besides, observations of the researcher indicated that active participations of the students were high level during the conducted instruction. From the results of this study it was concluded that this type of activities are important at the point of informing pre-service teachers about the adidactic settings which has an important potential of provoking mathematical thinking
Authors and Affiliations
Derya Çelik, Mustafa Güler, Buket Özüm Bülbül, Zeynep Medine Özmen
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- EP ID EP471157
- DOI 10.17278/ijesim.2015.01.002
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