ERIC Number: ED658475
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 9
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Shape Thinking and Students' Activity with Simulations and Tables
Toni York; Nicole Panorkou
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)
The construct of static and emergent shape thinking (Moore & Thompson, 2015) characterizes differences in students' reasoning about graphs. In our previous work with middle school students, we found that this construct may also be useful in characterizing students' reasoning about other representations such as simulations and tables. In this paper, we present data from six students' reasoning to initiate a discussion around the possible nature of static and emergent shape thinking in the context of simulations and tables that would contribute to an expansion of the current framework to include these representations. [For the complete proceedings, see ED658295.]
Descriptors: Middle School Mathematics, Middle School Students, Mathematics Skills, Thinking Skills, Graphs, Abstract Reasoning, Simulation
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: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: 1742125