Teaching and Learning Proof Across the Grades: A K-16 Perspective / Edition 1

Teaching and Learning Proof Across the Grades: A K-16 Perspective / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
0415887313
ISBN-13:
9780415887311
Pub. Date:
08/11/2010
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
0415887313
ISBN-13:
9780415887311
Pub. Date:
08/11/2010
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Teaching and Learning Proof Across the Grades: A K-16 Perspective / Edition 1

Teaching and Learning Proof Across the Grades: A K-16 Perspective / Edition 1

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Overview

A Co-Publication of Routledge for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)

In recent years there has been increased interest in the nature and role of proof in mathematics education; with many mathematics educators advocating that proof should be a central part of the mathematics education of students at all grade levels. This important new collection provides that much-needed forum for mathematics educators to articulate a connected K-16 "story" of proof. Such a story includes understanding how the forms of proof, including the nature of argumentation and justification as well as what counts as proof, evolve chronologically and cognitively and how curricula and instruction can support the development of students’ understanding of proof. Collectively these essays inform educators and researchers at different grade levels about the teaching and learning of proof at each level and, thus, help advance the design of further empirical and theoretical work in this area. By building and extending on existing research and by allowing a variety of voices from the field to be heard, Teaching and Learning Proof Across the Grades not only highlights the main ideas that have recently emerged on proof research, but also defines an agenda for future study.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415887311
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 08/11/2010
Series: Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 408
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Despina A. Stylianou is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at the City College of the City University of New York.

Maria L. Blanton is a Senior Executive Research Associate at the James J. Kaput Center for Research and Innovation in Mathematics Education and an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

Eric J. Knuth is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword: The Soul of Mathematics, Alan H. Schoenfeld

Preface

List of Contributors

Introduction

Section I: Theoretical Considerations on the Teaching and Learning of Proof

1. What I Would Like My Students to Already Know About Proof, Reuben Hersh

2. Exploring Relationships Between Disciplinary Knowledge and School Mathematics: Implications For Understanding the Place of Reasoning And Proof in School Mathematics, Daniel Chazan and H. Michael Lueke

3. Proving and Knowing In Public: The Nature of Proof in A Classroom, Patricio Herbst and Nicolas Balacheff

Section II: Teaching and Learning of Proof in the Elementary Grades

4. Representation-based Proof in the Elementary Grades, Deborah Schifter

5. Representations that Enable Children To Engage in Deductive Argument, Anne K. Morris

6. Young Mathematicians At Work: The Role of Contexts And Models in the Emergence of Proof, Catherine Twomey Fosnot and Bill Jacob

7. Children’s Reasoning: Discovering the Idea of Mathematical Proof, Carolyn A. Maher

8. Aspects of Teaching Proving In Upper Elementary School, David A. Reid and Vicki Zack

Section III: Teaching and Learning of Proof in Middle Grades and High School

9. Middle School Students’ Production of Mathematical Justifications, Eric J. Knuth, Jeffrey M. Choppin and Kristen N. Bieda

10. From Empirical to Structural Reasoning in Mathematics: Tracking Changes Over Time, Dietmar Küchemann and Celia Hoyles

11. Developing Argumentation and Proof Competencies in the Mathematics Classroom, Aiso Heinze and Kristina Reiss

12. Formal Proof in High School Geometry: Student Perceptions of Structure, Validity And Purpose, Sharon M. Soucy McCrone and Tami S. Martin

13. When is an Argument Just An Argument? The Refinement of Mathematical Argumentation, Kay McClain

14. Reasoning-and-Proving in School Mathematics: The Case of Pattern Identification, Gabriel J. Stylianides and Edward A. Silver

15. "Doing Proofs" in Geometry Classrooms, Patricio Herbst, Chialing Chen, Michael Weiss, and Gloriana González, with Talli Nachlieli, Maria Hamlin and Catherine Brach

Section IV: Teaching and Learning of Proof in College

16. College Instructors’ Views of Students Vis-á-Vis Proof, Guershon Harel and Larry Sowder

17. Understanding Instructional Scaffolding in Classroom Discourse on Proof, Maria L. Blanton, Despina A. Stylianou and M. Manuela David

18. Building a Community of Inquiry in a Problem-Based Undergraduate Number Theory Course: The Role of the Instructor, Jennifer Christian Smith, Stephanie Ryan Nichols, Sera Yoo and Kurt Oehler

19. Proof in Advanced Mathematics Classes: Semantic and Syntactic Reasoning in the Representation System of Proof, Keith Weber and Lara Alcock

20. Teaching Proving by Coordinating Aspects of Proofs with Students’ Abilities, John Selden and Annie Selden

21. Current Contributions toward Comprehensive Perspectives on the Learning and Teaching of Proof, Guershon Harel & Evan Fuller

References

Index

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