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Making Use Of Children’s Powers To Produce Algebraic Thinking

Key points: That children struggle to make the move from being in a situation where “not knowing answers (to arithmetic calculations) is treated negatively, and then suddenly introduced to algebra in which not knowing is treated positively as an opportunity to use symbols, as a way of working with not knowing.” “Whenever a learner solves […]

ThomasJPitts 15th May 2011

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What Is Algebra? What Is Algebraic Reasoning?

Key points: “Recent research on the status of student knowledge based in the traditional arithmetic-then-algebra regime has pointed to specific obstacles to algebra learning that computational arithmetic creates for the learning of algebra. For example, limited approaches to equality and the “=” sign in arithmetic as separator of procedure from result (Kieran, 1992) and now known to […]