Rethinking Factors

Autor/in	Feldman, Ziv
Titel	Rethinking Factors
Quelle	In: Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 20 (2014) 4, S.230-236 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1072-0839
Schlagwörter	Learning Activities; Active Learning; Problem Solving; Data Collection; Data Analysis; Middle School Students; Secondary School Mathematics; Teaching Methods; Mathematical Concepts; Concept Formation; Prediction; Mathematical Logic + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lernaktivität; Aktives Lernen; Problemlösen; Data capture; Datensammlung; Auswertung; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Vorhersage; Mathematical logics; Mathematische Logik
Abstract	This article describes an exciting exploration-based activity in which students develop an alternative definition of factor that can help them solve problems like the one presented above. Students work in groups to collect data, analyze the data to make conjectures, and then spend a significant amount of time debating and justifying their conjectures. Although designed for prospective teachers, the activity can be modified for middle school classrooms. Details are given about how to implement the activity in a middle school classroom as well as what we learned from past enactments with prospective elementary teachers. It concludes with a discussion of the activity's potential to impact students' related work with greatest common factors (GCF) and least common multiples (LCM). (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10