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ERIC Number: EJ1312553
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 35
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ISSN: ISSN-0737-0008
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Exploring Students' Dynamic Measurement Reasoning about Right Prisms and Cylinders
Cognition and Instruction, v39 n4 p477-511 2021
This study presents the results of a series of design experiments that aimed to engage twelve fourth-grade students in mathematical activity exploring the volume of right prisms and cylinders as a dynamic sweep of a surface through a height, an approach that is referred to as Dynamic Measurement for Volume (DYME-V). This article describes this approach and discusses the qualitatively different forms of DYME-V reasoning that students exhibited through this mathematical activity. The analysis of students' reasoning illustrates how students may reason about the quantities involved in DYME-V, their multiplicative relationship, and also their coordinated multiplicative change. The findings show the potential of the DYME-V approach for supporting a perception of right prisms and cylinders as spaces that are generated and thus defined by other objects as the approach emphasizes dynamic images of change in volume measurement.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades
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Language: English
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