Facilitating the development of proportional reasoning through teaching ratio

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Parish, Linda. (2010). Facilitating the development of proportional reasoning through teaching ratio. 33rd Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia. John Curtin College of the Arts, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia 03 - 07 Jul 2010 Fremantle, WA: Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia. pp. 469 - 476
AuthorsParish, Linda
TypeConference paper
Abstract

This study was part of a Master of Education project to design an assessment interview to identify the points of growth, or stages of development, in children’s thinking about ratio problems. Ratio is a sub-construct of rational number (Kieren, 1976) that requires proportional reasoning. The purpose of ‘growth points’ is to describe the developmental pathway children typically follow, and to inform teachers of where children have reached developmentally so that further learning can be targeted to their zone of proximal development. Two questions are explored in this paper: how do children typically develop ratio understandings, and can teachers use this knowledge in order to facilitate the development of proportional reasoning?

Keywordsmathematics; numeracy; curriculum; pedagogy; learning achievement; learner achievement
Year2010
PublisherMathematics Education Research Group of Australasia
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Book titleMERGA33 - 2010 : Shaping the future of mathematics education
Page range469 - 476
Book editorSparrow, Len
Kissane, Barry
Hurst, Chris
ISBN9781920846251
Web address (URL) of conference proceedingshttps://merga.net.au/Public/Public/Publications/Annual_Conference_Proceedings/2010_MERGA_CP.aspx
Research GroupSchool of Education
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Place of publicationFremantle, WA
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