Stimulating Proportional Reasoning through Questions of Finance and Fairness

Autor/inn/en	Sawatzki, Carly; Downton, Ann; Cheeseman, Jill
Titel	Stimulating Proportional Reasoning through Questions of Finance and Fairness
Quelle	In: Mathematics Education Research Journal, 31 (2019) 4, S.465-484 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sawatzki, Carly)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1033-2170
DOI	10.1007/s13394-019-00262-5
Schlagwörter	Mathematics Instruction; Mathematical Logic; Mathematical Concepts; Teaching Methods; Multiplication; Problem Solving; Money Management; Preadolescents; Elementary School Students; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Mathematical logics; Mathematische Logik; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Multiplikation; Problemlösen; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	What could two people stand to gain from sharing a taxi ride? We aimed to explore the extent to which this challenging yet accessible financial context might stimulate students' mathematical exploration of multiplicative thinking and proportional reasoning. Through teaching experiment methodology, data were collected from 37 Year 5 and 6 students (10-12 years of age) in suburban Melbourne. The findings reveal that the majority of the students had some intuitive understanding of how to solve a financial problem that involved rate, and at least half of them used either multiplicative thinking or proportional reasoning. While the study reported is small and cannot claim to be representative, the findings confirm that well-designed financial problems have the potential to unveil sophisticated mathematical understandings among primary school students. This research demonstrates what young adolescents can do prior to formal exposure to ratio and proportion as part of the curriculum. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01