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Publication Date: 2013-Mar
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Students' Geometrical Perception on a Task-Based Dynamic Geometry Platform
Leung, Allen; Lee, Arthur Man Sang
Educational Studies in Mathematics, v82 n3 p361-377 Mar 2013
This paper describes a task-based dynamic geometry platform that is able to record student responses in a collective fashion to pre-designed dragging tasks. The platform provides a new type of data and opens up a quantitative dimension to interpret students' geometrical perception in dynamic geometry environments. The platform is capable of generating a collective image map of student geometrical perceptions for a pre-designed dragging task. This map is interpreted as students' qualitatively different ways of perceiving a geometrical phenomenon under the drag mode, ways which are quantified and categorized in a collective way. The idea of task perceptual landscape is proposed to facilitate discussion on the pedagogical significance of this platform. Specifically, a task case is presented and analysed in which a methodology is developed that provides a way to classify students' geometrical perceptions with respect to the task. The task perceptual landscape is interpreted as a collective example space of student perception of a task. Furthermore, an idea of personal example space is developed through the findings from a qualitative study for the same task. This brings about discussion on possible pedagogical correlation between the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the platform.
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Geometry, Secondary School Mathematics, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
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Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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