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Process dimensions of mathematics

Overview

Includes information to help learn and facilitate the learning and use of the process dimensions of mathematics.

Problem solving Tools to facilitate mathematical problem solving

  • Problem solving Concepts, misconceptions, & outcomes by levels in the mathematical knowledge base

Information to facilitate literacy in problem solving & tools to achieve it

Activities to facilitate problem solving

 

Representation

Representation Concepts, misconceptions, & outcomes by levels in the mathematical knowledge base

Information to facilitate representation & tools to achieve it

Area representations

Lynne Outhred and Michael Mitchelmore asked learners to illustrate the area of a rectangular shape. They found learners demonstrated four different strategies: incomplete covering, visual covering, concrete covering, and measurement. The drawings below show samples from each.

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Lynne Outhred & Michael Mitchelmore. Young Children Intuitive Understanding of Rectangular Area Measurement, JRME. 2000. Vol 31, #2. 144-167.

Representation of relative position of objects

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Illustration of Internal Representation

 

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Actual object, real world, or external representation

 

Representation of external objects with points on an other external object

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What does this have to do with mathematical representations?

 

Activities to facilitate representation

 

Communication

Communication Concepts, misconceptions, & outcomes by levels in the mathematical knowledge base

Information to facilitate literacy in communitation & tools to achieve it

Activities to facilitate reasoning & proof

 

Connections & perspective

Connections & perspective Concepts, misconceptions, & outcomes by levels in the mathematical knowledge base

Information to facilitate literacy in connections & perspective & tools to achieve it

  • Mathematical ideas build upon each other.
  • Mathematical ideas are connected to other mathematical ideas.
  • Mathematical ideas are connected to the world.

 

 

 

 

Common sense & knowledge

Common sense Vs Knowledge

 

Counting in Winnebago

  1. WIn
  2. NOnBA
  3. THABTHIn
  4. DUBA
  5. SATOn
  6. SHAPE
  7. PETHOnBA
  8. PETHABTHIn
  9. SHOnKA
  10. GTHEBOn

 

Interesting book

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The Power of Logical Thinking: Easy Lessons in the Art of Reasoning... and Hard Facts About Its Absence in Our Lives, Marilyn Vos Savant (1996) ISBN 0-312-13985-3 Saint Martin's Press: New York.