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ERIC Number: EJ1239578
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Jan
Pages: 19
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1954
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Disclosure of Mathematical Relationships with a Digital Tool: A Three Layer-Model of Meaning
Swidan, Osama; Sabena, Cristina; Arzarello, Ferdinando
Educational Studies in Mathematics, v103 n1 p83-101 Jan 2020
This paper examines mathematical meaning-making from a phenomenological perspective and considers how a specific dynamic digital tool can prompt students to disclose the relationships between a function and its antiderivatives. Drawing on case study methodology, we focus on a pair of grade 11 students and analyze how the tool's affordances and the students' engagement in the interrogative processes of sequential questioning and answering allow them to make sense of the mathematical objects and their relationships and, lastly, of the mathematical activity in which they are engaged. A three-layer model of meaning of the students' disclosure process emerges, namely, (a) disclosing objects, (b) disclosing relationships, and (c) disclosing functional relationships. The model sheds light on how the students' "interrogative processes" help them make sense of mathematical concepts as they work on tasks with a digital tool, an issue that has rarely been explored. The study's implications and limitations are discussed.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 11; High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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