Are Athletes Getting Better over Time?

Autor/inn/en	Muir, Tracey; Wells, Jill
Titel	Are Athletes Getting Better over Time?
Quelle	In: Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 24 (2019) 3, S.15-20 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1326-0286
Schlagwörter	Athletes; Mathematics Instruction; Active Learning; Inquiry; Foreign Countries; Mathematics Activities; Trend Analysis; Elementary School Mathematics; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Athlet; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Aktives Lernen; Ausland; Trendanalyse; Elementare Mathematik; Schulmathematik; Australien
Abstract	Mathematical inquiry is an approach whereby students respond to ill-structured, open-ended questions that reflect the authentic problems we encounter in 'real' life (Allmond, Wells & Makar, 2010). An open-ended ill-structured question has no single correct answer and often contains ambiguities in the problem that require students to make a number of decisions (Makar, 2012). In an inquiry-based lesson, students are required to negotiate the question meaning and context; decide on the mathematical evidence that would be needed to address the question; decide how to collect, organize, and represent the evidence collected; interpret the evidence; and, present and justify the findings in the form of a conclusion with supporting evidence (Fielding-Wells, 2010). In this article, the authors present a framework for guiding mathematical inquiry and use it to explore the age-old question: Are athletes getting better over time? Their research, once again, underscores the benefit of having students explore data representations and interpretation in authentic contexts. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers (AAMT). Tel: +61-8-8363-0288; e-mail: office@aamt.edu.au; Web site: https://primarystandards.aamt.edu.au/Journals
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01