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Gurbuz, M. Cagri; Ozdemir, M. Emin – World Journal of Education, 2020
The aim of this study was to examine 6th-grade students' mathematical abstraction processes related to the concept of variable by using the teaching experiment method and to reveal their learning trajectories in the context of the RBC+C model. A teaching experiment was administered to a class of 29 middle school students for 3 weeks. Observations,…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Grade 6, Middle School Students, Algebra
Ozmantar, Mehmet Fatih; Monaghan, John – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2007
This paper is structured in two sections. The first examines views of mathematical abstraction in two broad categories: empiricist and dialectical accounts. It documents the difficulties involved in and explores the potentialities of both accounts. Then it outlines a recent model which takes a dialectical materialist approach to abstraction in…
Descriptors: Tutors, Abstract Reasoning, Student Development, Models