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Tarlow, Lynn D. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2008
This article describes a mathematics session in which students explored a challenging combinatorics task, a topic shown to be difficult for students when taught traditionally. The students developed a progression of personal representations, increasingly symbolic and abstract, which they used to find a solution and justification. (Contains 8…
Descriptors: Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction, After School Programs, Knowledge Representation