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Improving Middle School Students' Proportional Reasoning

conference contribution
posted on 2023-05-23, 16:57 authored by Kim Beswick
The development of students' proportional reasoning is a key concern of middle school mathematics and is related to many topics with which students experience dijJiculties. Carefidly chosen tasks can reveal much about students' understandings of mathematical concepts and are hence valuable parts of teachers' repertoires. This paper presents a range of student responses to tasks, to illustrate both the potential value of well chosen tasks for teaching, and the diversity of students' proportional thinking.

History

Publication title

Connected Maths

Editors

Vincent, J; Dowsey, J & Pierce, R

Pagination

25-39

ISBN

978-1-8769-49-99-0

Department/School

Faculty of Education

Publisher

The Mathematical Association of Victoria

Place of publication

Australia

Event title

The Mathematical Association of Victoria for the Forty-Fifth Conference

Event Venue

Melbourne

Date of Event (Start Date)

2008-12-04

Date of Event (End Date)

2008-12-05

Rights statement

Copyright © 2008 Mathematical Association of Victoria

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Pedagogy

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