ERIC Number: ED630087
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 10
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Theo's Reinvention of the Logic of Conditional Statements' Proofs Rooted in Set-Based Reasoning
Dawkins, Paul Christian; Roh, Kyeong Hah; Eckman, Derek; Cho, Young Kee
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (43rd, Philadelphia, PA, Oct 14-17, 2021)
This report documents how one undergraduate student used set-based reasoning to reinvent logical principles related to conditional statements and their proofs. This learning occurred in a teaching experiment intended to foster abstraction of these logical relationships by comparing the predicate and inference structures among various proofs (in number theory and geometry). We document the progression of Theo's emergent set-based model from a model-of the truth of statements to a model-for logical relationships. This constitutes some of the first evidence for how such logical concepts can be abstracted in this way and provides evidence for the viability of the learning progression that guided the instructional design. [For the complete proceedings, see ED630060.]
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Validity, Mathematical Logic, Learning Trajectories, Teaching Methods, Instructional Design, Undergraduate Students, Comparative Analysis, Geometry, Concept Formation, Mathematical Concepts, Learning Processes, Inferences, Logical Thinking, Calculus, Minority Serving Institutions, Hispanic American Students
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. e-mail: pmena.steeringcommittee@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.pmena.org/
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: 1954768
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