Connecting Research to Teaching: Not All Opportunities to Prove Are the Same

Connecting Research to Teaching: Not All Opportunities to Prove Are the Same

For many American students, high school geometry provides their only focused experience in writing proofs (Herbst 2002), and proof is often viewed as the application of recently learned theorems rather than a means of establishing and understanding the truth of general results (Soucy McCrone and Mar...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:The Mathematics teacher 2013-09, Vol.107 (2), p.138-142
Hauptverfasser: Gilbertson, Nicholas J., Otten, Samuel, Males, Lorraine M., Clark, D. Lee
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Online-Zugang:Volltext
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:For many American students, high school geometry provides their only focused experience in writing proofs (Herbst 2002), and proof is often viewed as the application of recently learned theorems rather than a means of establishing and understanding the truth of general results (Soucy McCrone and Martin 2009).
ISSN:0025-5769
2330-0582
DOI:10.5951/mathteacher.107.2.0138