Instructional strategies in explicating the discovery function of proof for lower secondary school students

Ding, Liping and Jones, Keith (2009) Instructional strategies in explicating the discovery function of proof for lower secondary school students. In Proceedings of the ICMI Study 19 Conference: Proof and Proving in Mathematics Education. National Taiwan Normal University. pp. 136-141 .

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In this paper, we report on the analysis of teaching episodes selected from our pedagogical and cognitive research on geometry teaching that illustrate how carefully-chosen instructional strategies can guide Grade 8 students to see and appreciate the discovery function of proof in geometry

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Published date: May 2009

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Venue - Dates: conference; 2009-05-10; 2009-05-15, Taipei, Taiwan, 2009-05-10 - 2009-05-15

Keywords: jones, keith, southampton, instruction, pedagogy, strategies, proof, secondary school, students, icmi, conference, proving, mathematics education, isbn 9789860182101

Organisations: Mathematics, Science & Health Education