Exploring Patterns in Algebraic Thinking

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Autor(a) principal: Borralho, António
Data de Publicação: 2011
Outros Autores: Barbosa, Elsa
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/5286
Resumo: Nowadays algebraic thinking has become central to the mathematics curriculum. The development of algebraic thinking is seen as essential to the mastery of algebra. The transition between numbers and a higher level of abstraction is not trivial and in moving from arithmetic to algebra students experience genuine difficulties (Barbosa and Borralho, 2009 and Sinistsky, Ilany and Guberman, 2009). Teachers should diversify strategies, allowing their students to develop algebraic reasoning and symbol sense (Arcavi, 2006). Considering the classroom environment, the present study aims to understand the use of patterns in a context of research tasks as a way to improve the progress of algebraic thinking. We started out with two main research questions focused on: (1) algebraic reasoning and (2) mathematical communication.
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title Exploring Patterns in Algebraic Thinking
spellingShingle Exploring Patterns in Algebraic Thinking
Borralho, António
mathematics education
investigations tasks
patterns
mathematic reasoning
Algebra
algebraic thinking
title_short Exploring Patterns in Algebraic Thinking
title_full Exploring Patterns in Algebraic Thinking
title_fullStr Exploring Patterns in Algebraic Thinking
title_full_unstemmed Exploring Patterns in Algebraic Thinking
title_sort Exploring Patterns in Algebraic Thinking
author Borralho, António
author_facet Borralho, António
Barbosa, Elsa
author_role author
author2 Barbosa, Elsa
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Borralho, António
Barbosa, Elsa
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv mathematics education
investigations tasks
patterns
mathematic reasoning
Algebra
algebraic thinking
topic mathematics education
investigations tasks
patterns
mathematic reasoning
Algebra
algebraic thinking
description Nowadays algebraic thinking has become central to the mathematics curriculum. The development of algebraic thinking is seen as essential to the mastery of algebra. The transition between numbers and a higher level of abstraction is not trivial and in moving from arithmetic to algebra students experience genuine difficulties (Barbosa and Borralho, 2009 and Sinistsky, Ilany and Guberman, 2009). Teachers should diversify strategies, allowing their students to develop algebraic reasoning and symbol sense (Arcavi, 2006). Considering the classroom environment, the present study aims to understand the use of patterns in a context of research tasks as a way to improve the progress of algebraic thinking. We started out with two main research questions focused on: (1) algebraic reasoning and (2) mathematical communication.
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