Mathematics as a constructive activity: Learners generating examples

This book explains and demonstrates the teaching strategy of asking learners to construct their own examples of mathematical objects. The authors show that the creation of examples can involve transforming and reorganizing knowledge and that, although this is usually done by authors and teachers, if...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Watson, A, Mason, J
Format: Book
Published: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2005