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ERIC Number: ED501063
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2003-Jul
Pages: 8
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Heuristics of Twelfth Graders Building Isomorphisms
Powell, Arthur B.; Maher, Carolyn A.
International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Paper presented at the 27th International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Conference Held Jointly with the 25th PME-NA Conference (Honolulu, HI, Jul 13-18, 2003), v4 p23-30
This report analyzes the discursive interactions of four students to understand what heuristic methods they develop as well as how and why they build isomorphisms to resolve a combinatorial problem set in a non-Euclidian context. The findings suggest that results of their heuristic actions lead them to build isomorphisms that in turn allow them to justify a conjecture of theirs, using transitivity. (Contains 2 footnotes and 1 figure.) [For complete proceedings, see ED500860.]
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Publication Type: Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Education Level: Grade 12; High Schools
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Language: English
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