Spontaneous Meta-Arithmetic as the First Step Toward School Algebra (La meta-aritmética espontánea como el primer paso hacia el álgebra escolar)

Taking as a point of departure the vision of school algebra as a formalized meta-discourse of arithmetic, we have been following six pairs of 7th-grade students (12-13 years old) as they gradually modify their spontaneous meta-arithmetic toward the “official” algebraic form of talk. In this paper we...

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Main Authors: Shai Caspi, Anna Sfard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Granada 2012-01-01
Series:PNA: Revista de Investigación en Didáctica de la Matemática
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Online Access:http://www.pna.es/Numeros2/pdf/Caspi2012Spontaneous_PNA6(2).pdf