Breen, Sinéad ORCID: 0000-0001-7215-0460, Ní Shé, Caitríona ORCID: 0000-0002-6592-0276 and O'Shea, Ann ORCID: 0000-0001-8504-2290 (2024) Role of example generation in implicit and explicit conjecturing tasks. In: INDRUM 2024, 10-14 June 2024, Barcelona, Spain. ISBN 2707-2819
Abstract
Conjecturing is crucial to mathematics and an activity in which it is believed mathematics learners of all ages should engage. It has been found that mathematicians productively generate examples when they are formulating conjectures. In this paper we explore whether this is also the case for undergraduate non-specialist mathematics students by means of an instrumental case study. We label conjecturing tasks as either explicit or implicit to distinguish between tasks which explicitly ask students to make a conjecture and those in which conjecturing is evoked implicitly, and we discuss the benefit of Comprehensive Example Generation (by which an example set is generated sequentially and systematically) in the context of such conjecturing tasks. The consequences of using a digital environment for such tasks are also discussed.
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Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Event Type: | Conference |
Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | conjecturing, example generation, task design |
Subjects: | Social Sciences > Education Mathematics |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science and Health > School of Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes and Centres > Research Centre in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education (CASTel) |
Publisher: | European Society for Research in Mathematics Education |
Official URL: | https://eden-europe.eu/proceedings/ |
ID Code: | 30082 |
Deposited On: | 20 Aug 2024 09:42 by Sinead Breen . Last Modified 20 Aug 2024 09:42 |
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