Abstract
It has been advocated that the search for patterns and their organization in mathematical language is a central component of mathematical thinking. Hershkowitz, Arcavi and Bruckheimer (2001) investigated problem solving processes of a "visual-pattern-problem" which start with visual strategies for reorganizing the visual pattern and ended in a formal algebraic expression as a solution. In this study we had decided to use the same problem for investigating also a process in an opposite direction: starting from a given algebraic expression, analyzing it in a way that uncovers the visual strategies which are behind the algebraic components of the given expression.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of 67th annual conference of the International commission for the study and improvement of mathematics education (CIEAEM 67) |
| Editors | C. Sabena, B. Di Paola |
| Place of Publication | Palermo, Italy |
| Publisher | University of Palermo |
| Pages | 503-506 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| State | Published - 1 Jul 2015 |