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Tanguay, Denis; Grenier, Denise – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2010
We report on an experiment conducted with pre-service teachers in France and in Quebec. They were submitted to a classroom situation involving regular polyhedra. We expected that through the activities of defining, of exploring and experimenting via concrete constructions and manipulation, students would reflect on the link face angle--dihedral…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geometry, Experiments, Mathematical Logic
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Kilpatrick, Jeremy – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2003
One cannot begin considering the topic of this colloquium without asking, why twenty years? Why not two hundred? Two hundred years ago, Silvestre Franois Lacroix was about to be named chief officer of the Commission Executive de L'Instruction Publique. Out of that experience, together with his long career in instruction, especially as professor of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Science Education History
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Comiti, Claude; Bessot, Annie – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1987
Teaching sequences designed to develop strategies for comparing numerals in grade two (in France) were analyzed. Children's strategies were noted, and an experiment confirmed underlying misconceptions concerning number. (MNS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Error Patterns
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Gaudin, Nathalie – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2002
Presents a case study as a framework within which to discuss the concepts of function and their representations. (KHR)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Functions (Mathematics)
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Laborde, Colette – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1989
Describes some topics of French research: relationships between teaching and learning, choices and constraints of the didactic system, role of the computer, and forms of the functioning knowledge. (YP)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Computers, Concept Formation, Elementary School Mathematics