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Teaching Fractions Through Situations: A Fundamental Experiment
Brousseau, Guy; Brousseau, Guy; Warfield, Virginia McShane
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Description for Teaching Fractions Through Situations: A Fundamental Experiment
Paperback. This book chronicles a series of experimental adventures that astonished both students and their teachers: the reinvention of fractions and decimals in a sequence of lessons and situations that allowed the students to construct the concepts for themselves. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNT; JNU; PBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 361.
This work presents one of the original and fundamental experiments of Didactique, a research program whose underlying tenet is that Mathematics Education research should be solidly based on scientific observation. Here the observations are of a series of adventures that were astonishing for both the students and the teachers: the reinvention of fractions and of decimal numbers in a sequence of lessons and situations that permitted the students to construct the concepts for themselves. The book leads the reader through the highlights of the sequence's structure and some of the reasoning behind the lesson choices. It then presents explanations of ... Read more
This work presents one of the original and fundamental experiments of Didactique, a research program whose underlying tenet is that Mathematics Education research should be solidly based on scientific observation. Here the observations are of a series of adventures that were astonishing for both the students and the teachers: the reinvention of fractions and of decimal numbers in a sequence of lessons and situations that permitted the students to construct the concepts for themselves. The book leads the reader through the highlights of the sequence's structure and some of the reasoning behind the lesson choices. It then presents explanations of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789401784207
SKU
V9789401784207
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for Teaching Fractions Through Situations: A Fundamental Experiment
From the reviews: “This book, intended for teachers, mathematics education researchers, and mathematicians, is about developing and teaching a curriculum for teaching fractions. … the book describes three ‘adventures’ –– the adventure of the researchers while discovering and testing a curriculum for rational number learning, developed using the theory of didactical situations (Chapter 4), the adventure of ... Read more