Pre-Service Teachers’ Reasoning and Sense-Making of Growing Patterns
2023 (English)In: Proceedings of The 6th World Conference on Research in Education, 2023, Diamond Scientific Publishing , 2023Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Sustainable development
SDG 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Abstract [en]
In this study, we aimed to present the features of pre-service teachers’ reasoning and sense making in the process of exploring growing patterns tasks. Participants were 79 pre-service primary teachers in Sweden. The analysis was grounded in the concept of critical aspects from variation theory and the concepts of assemblage, lines of flight, segmentarity, and rupture from a post-structuralist philosophical perspective. Results indicate that the concepts of assemblage, line of flight, rupture, and segmentarity can be useful tools for analyzing analysing reasoning and sense making in mathematics. The results also show that in mathematics, the line of flight can be seen in moments of creativity and innovation. Furthermore, the results show that rupture can be seen in the connection of concepts or ideas that challenge established mathematical structures and ways of thinking. Further, the results shows that segmentarity creates disciplinary boundaries and inhibits reasoning and sense making. Therefore, it is important to recognize and break down these boundaries to facilitate more creative and innovative reasoning and sense making in mathematics.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Diamond Scientific Publishing , 2023.
Keywords [en]
reasoning, sense making, growing pattern, assemblage, variation theory, difference, repetition
National Category
Didactics
Research subject
Mathematics, Mathematical Education
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-123672ISBN: 9786094854224 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-123672DiVA, id: diva2:1787318
Conference
The 6th World Conference on Research in Education, June 9-11, Nice, France.
2023-08-132023-08-132023-10-27Bibliographically approved