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High school students’ use of patterns and generalisations
Citation
Dindyal, J.. (2007). High school students’ use of patterns and generalisations. In J. Watson & K. Beswick (Eds.), Mathematics: Essential research, essential practice: Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (pp. 236-245). MERGA of Australasia.
Author
Dindyal, Jaguthsing
Abstract
This paper reports how high school students from two different schools used patterns and generalisations while working on some selected problems. The results show that the initial identification of a pattern was crucial in determining the type of symbolic generalisation, which for successful students’ seemed to proceed through four sequential stages.
Date Issued
2007
Description
This paper was presented at the 30th annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, held in Tasmania, Australia from 2 – 6 Jul 2007