Title: TEACHING MIDDLE LEVEL STUDENTS TO GENERALIZE: FROM IMPLICIT TO EXPLICIT.
Authors: Meixia Ding; Heaton, Ruth; Hartman, David
Abstract: The article presents a study on measuring students' capacity to generalize. It involved twelve lessons of two middle level teachers which revealed that the teachers' limited understanding of problem structures prevented them from making the students comprehend what implicit generalization meant. The study also showed that the teachers concentrated on the results or the answers rather than how students came up with the results.
Subjects: GENERALIZATION; MATHEMATICS education (Middle school); COMPREHENSION strategies; TEACHER-student relationships; LEARNING strategies
Publication: Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2012, Vol 5, Issue 2, p14
ISSN: 1947-7503
Publication type: Academic Journal
DOI: 10.1080/24727466.2012.11790321

TEACHING MIDDLE LEVEL STUDENTS TO GENERALIZE: FROM IMPLICIT TO EXPLICIT.

Meixia Ding; Heaton, Ruth; Hartman, David