Insight into Pupils' Understanding of Infinity in a Geometrical Context

Insight into Pupils' Understanding of Infinity in a Geometrical Context

School students' intuitive concepts of infinity are gained from personal experiences and in many cases the tacit models built up by them are inconsistent. The paper describes and analyses a series of tasks which were developed to enable the researchers to look into the mental processes used by...

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Veröffentlicht in:International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education 2004
Hauptverfasser: Jirotkova, Darina, Littler, Graham
Format: Report
Sprache:eng
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Cognitive Processes
Czech Republic
England
Foreign Countries
Geometric Concepts
Mathematical Concepts
Mathematics Instruction
Preadolescents
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Zusammenfassung:School students' intuitive concepts of infinity are gained from personal experiences and in many cases the tacit models built up by them are inconsistent. The paper describes and analyses a series of tasks which were developed to enable the researchers to look into the mental processes used by students when they are thinking about infinity and to help the students to clarify their thoughts on the topic. [For complete proceedings, see ED489538.]