The interplay between students’ understandings of proportional and functional relationships

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2017-10-08

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Stephens, Ana
Strachota, Susanne
Knuth, Eric
Blanton, Maria
İşler Baykal, Işıl
Gardiner, Angela Murphy

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This research explores the interplay between students’ understandings of proportional and functional relationships. Approximately 90 students participated in an early algebra intervention in Grades 3– 5. Before the intervention and after each year of the intervention, we evaluated their understandings of proportional and functional relationships. Data revealed that among Grades 4 and 5 students who identified a correct function rule, a higher percentage were unsuccessful solving a proportional reasoning problem than those who were not able to identify a correct function rule. Namely, the data suggest that students’ development of functional thinking may interfere with their development of understanding proportional relationships.

Subject Keywords

Algebra and algebraic thinking, Elementary school education

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https://www.conf.purdue.edu/landing_pages/pme-na/docs/PMENA39_2017_Proceedings.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/78522

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Proceedings of the 39th annual meeting of the North American (2017)

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Department of Mathematics and Science Education, Conference / Seminar

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A. Stephens, S. Strachota, E. Knuth, M. Blanton, I. İşler Baykal, and A. M. Gardiner, “The interplay between students’ understandings of proportional and functional relationships,” presented at the Proceedings of the 39th annual meeting of the North American (2017), Indianapolis, Hoosier, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.conf.purdue.edu/landing_pages/pme-na/docs/PMENA39_2017_Proceedings.pdf.