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ERIC Number: EJ956256
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Sep
Pages: 2
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0025-5785
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A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Exercises
Foster, Colin
Mathematics Teaching, n224 p10-11 Sep 2011
One sign of a good task is that it will work just as well with Year 7 as with Year 13. The author asks learners to use graph-drawing software to draw a picture with graphs. He uses his imagination to suggest what a particular curve might resemble and helps learners to adjust their drawings to achieve what they are trying to make. Sometimes, one learner creates a picture and conceals the equation(s) and others try to replicate it, as near as they can. Working in this way involves learners in a great deal of productive mathematical thinking and would seem to be worth any number of dreary exercises on "transformations of graphs".
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Grade 5; Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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