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ERIC Number: ED658453
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 9
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Proof without Claim: A Novel Tool for Exploring Students' Conceptions of Proofs
Alison Mirin; Dov Zazkis; Andre Rouhani
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 (45th, Reno, NV, Oct 1-4, 2023)
In order to learn more about student understanding of the structure of proofs, we generated a novel genre of tasks called "Proof Without Claim" (PWC). Our work can be viewed as an extension of Selden and Selden's (1995) construct of "proof framework"; while Selden and Selden discuss how the structure of a proof can be discerned by the claim it proves, we leverage the consideration that one can discern a claim by the structure of its proof. In these PWC tasks, the student is presented with a proof with any explicit mention of its claim being proven removed and is instructed to discern the proof's claim. We introduce the construct of Personal Proof Framework (PPF) to describe the varied ways in which students relate the claim being proven to the content of the proof. [For the complete proceedings, see ED658295.]
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: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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