ERIC Number: ED630371
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 8
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Conceptual Reorganization, from Count-Up-To to Break-Apart-Make-Ten: A Case of a 6th Grader Struggling in Mathematics
Tzur, Ron; Harrington, Cody; DeBay, Dennis; Davis, Alan
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (44th, Nashville, TN, Nov 17-20, 2022)
Through a constructivist teaching experiment, we studied how a 6th-grade student (Adam, pseudonym) struggling in mathematics may reorganize his available additive scheme (count-up-to) into a more advanced scheme involving the decomposition of composite units (break-apart-make-ten, or BAMT). First, we posed a task that led us to infer Adam was yet to construct the BAMT scheme at the anticipatory stage (solving a task without prompting). We thus turned to promote reorganization of his anticipatory, count-up-to scheme used to solve missing-addend tasks. Through reflection on the relationships between his goal, count-up-to actions, and effect of those actions, Adam independently brought forth what he called "easy number-pairs" (i.e., 10+X = X-teen). This seemed to afford his reorganization of count-up-to into the BAMT scheme. We discuss implications of this reorganization for theory building and practice. [For the complete proceedings, see ED630210.]
Descriptors: Grade 6, Mathematics Instruction, Learning Problems, Elementary School Students, Mathematical Concepts, Computation, Constructivism (Learning)
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. e-mail: pmena.steeringcommittee@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.pmena.org/
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 6; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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