Learning through critiquing: Investigating students’ responses to others’ graphs of a real-life functional situation

Karina J. Wilkie, Michal Ayalon, Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia

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Abstract

Argumentation activities, such as constructing and communicating claims, critiquing others' ideas, and evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of claims, can play a foundational role in students' educational development. Yet there is more to understand about utilising these activities for effective mathematics learning. This paper discusses an exploration of 12 Australian students' responses to a purposefully designed argumentation task on graphing functions to provide insight into their attention to particular functions concepts. Issues related to argumentation task design and functions teaching and learning are discussed.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMathematics Education Research
Subtitle of host publicationImpacting Practice (Proceedings of the 42nd annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia)
EditorsG. Hine, S. Blackley, A. Cooke
Place of PublicationPerth
PublisherMERGA
Pages763-770
Number of pages8
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2019

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