From recursive pattern to correspondence rule Developing students abilities to engage in functional thinking

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2012-11-01

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Stephens, Ana
İşler Baykal, Işıl
Marum, Tim
Blanton, Maria
Knuth, Eric
Murphy Gardiner, Angela

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Third- through fifth-grade students participating in a classroom teaching experiment investigating the impact of an Early Algebra Learning Progression completed pre- and post-assessment items addressing their abilities to engage in functional thinking. We found that after a sustained early algebra intervention, students grew in their abilities to shift from recursive to covariational thinking about linear functions and to represent correspondence rules in both words and variables.

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Algebra and algebraic thinking, Elementary school education

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http://www.pmena.org/pmenaproceedings/PMENA%2034%202012%20Proceedings.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/72449

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Department of Mathematics and Science Education, Conference / Seminar