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ERIC Number: EJ1470151
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 20
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0020-739X
EISSN: EISSN-1464-5211
Available Date: 0000-00-00
Investigating How Lower Secondary School Students Reason about Quadrilaterals Emerging in Dynamic Constructions
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, v56 n3 p495-514 2025
This contribution focuses on reasoning about quadrilaterals provided by lower secondary school students when working with pre-prepared dynamic constructions. On this topic, we present an exploratory empirical qualitative study carried out within a GeoGebra Classroom environment, and our diagnostic instrument consists of a set of dynamic constructions of quadrilaterals that are based just on a composition of lines and circles. The dynamic constructions consist of the same construction steps as with a straightedge and a compass on paper, without any relational or measurement information provided by the software. The hierarchy in the dynamic constructions is tied to properties of diagonals and takes on various levels and structure (one level, two consecutive levels, two parallel pairs of consecutive levels). For each of the constructions, the participants of the study reasoned which shapes could be found in the construction and why. Various levels of reasoning as well as various levels of students' understanding of quadrilaterals appeared in data. The findings indicate that, at least for the lower secondary school students, the combination of dynamic manipulations and geometric constructions could form a significant space for scaffolding the identification of the features of quadrilaterals and the comprehension of the inclusive relations between them.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Czech Republic
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Author Affiliations: 1Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic; 2Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Education, University of South Bohemia in Ceské Budejovice, Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic; 3Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA