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Publication Date: 2005-Jul
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Students' Colloquial and Mathematical Discourses on Infinity and Limit
Kim, Dong-Joong; Sfard, Anna; Ferrini-Mundy, Joan
International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Paper presented at the Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (29th, Melbourne, Australia, Jul 10-15, 2005), v3 p201-208
The purpose of the study presented in this paper is to investigate how students deal with the concepts of infinity and limit. Based on the communicational approach to cognition, according to which mathematics is a kind of discourse, we try to identify the characteristics of students' discourse on the topic. Four American and four Korean students were interviewed in English on limits and infinity and their discourse is scrutinized with an eye to the common characteristics as well as culture, age, and education-related differences. (Contains 1 figure and 2 tables.) [For complete proceedings, see ED496848.]
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Comprehension, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Age Differences, Educational Attainment, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, High School Students, College Students, Number Concepts, Definitions
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Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education
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