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Seeing through students' eyes: The best-help strategy for pattern generalisation
Citation
Chua, B. L., & Hoyles, C. (2015). Seeing through students' eyes: The best-help strategy for pattern generalisation. In S. J. Cho (Ed.), Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-12) (pp. 2012-2021). Springer International Publishing.
Author
Chua, Boon Liang
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Hoyles, Celia
Abstract
This paper reports on the choices of 215 Singapore secondary school students' best-help strategy when presented in a questionnaire to one linear and one quadratic generalising task. The findings revealed different preferences of strategy between two groups of students–the more able and the less able–in that a figural strategy was favoured by the former while the latter tended to prefer a numerical strategy. There were no gender differences in student choices of strategy amongst the more able students and amongst the less able students. But a significant difference was present in both tasks between more able and less able girls. The findings are discussed and some implications for teaching drawn.
Date Issued
2015
Description
This paper was published in the Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Mathematical Education: Intellectual and attitudinal challenges, held in Seoul. Korea from 8 – 15 Jul 2012