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What is algebraic activity? Consideration of 9-10 year olds learning to solve linear equations
conference contribution
posted on 2015-09-25, 08:25 authored by Dave HewittThis paper tries to rise issues about what constitutes algebraic activity through
looking at number of episodes from a series of three lessons taught to 9-10 year olds
using the software Grid Algebra[1]. From different viewpoints the work the students
achieved could be viewed as anything from impressive algebraic activity after
relatively short time of teaching, to feeling as if no algebraic activity took place at all. The aim of the paper is to raise issues rather than come to a particular position. It ends up highlighting the fact that such viewpoints are the result of us considering certain things are important and to encourage pursuit of what those are and why we give them that significance.
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7th Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics (CERME)Pages
500 - 510 (11)Citation
HEWITT, D., 2011. What is algebraic activity? Consideration of 9-10 year olds learning to solve linear equations. IN: Pytlak, M., Rowland, T. and Swoboda, E., (eds.). 7th Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics (CERME), Rzeszów, Poland, 9-13th Feb., pp.500-510.Publisher
© The authors. Published by University of Rzeszñw, Poland on behalf of the European Society for Research in MathematicsVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2011Notes
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9788373386839Publisher version
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- en
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