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Title: The Role of abstraction in learning about rates of change
Related: Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia Conference (29th : 2006) (1 - 5 July 2006 : Canberra, ACT)
Related: Grootenboer, Peter; Zevenbergen, Robyn and Chinnappan, Mohan. Identities cultures and learning spaces : proceedings of the 29th annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, p.278-285
Related: http://www.merga.net.au/documents/RP302006.pdf
Publisher: Adelaide, S. Aust : MERGA
Date: 2006
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 130200 Curriculum and Pedagogy
Author/Creator: Hassan, Ibrahim
Author/Creator: Mitchelmore, Michael
Description: Fourteen Year 11 advanced mathematics students participated in individual teaching interviews designed to investigate how they learnt various rate of change concepts. The theoretical framework compared two models of abstraction: the empirical abstraction model of Mitchelmore and White and the nested RBC model of Hershkowitz, Schwarz, and Dreyfus. Examples of learning were found that fitted the nested RBC model, but none that fitted the empirical abstraction model. It was concluded that the nested RBC model is valuable for understanding student learning of the concepts of average and instantaneous rate of change, but that empirical abstraction is likely to be more valuable in understanding how students develop a global concept of rate of change earlier.
Description: 8 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 130200 Curriculum and Pedagogy
Resource Type: conference paper
Organisation: Macquarie University. School of Education

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/99690
Identifier: ISBN:1920846123
Identifier: mq-rm-2006000626
Language: eng
Rights: Copyright Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia Incorporated. Original published at (http://www.merga.net.au/node/38?year=2006). Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further reproduction rights please contact the publisher at http://www.merga.net.au
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