Teaching Fractions through Situations: A Fundamental Experiment

• Main Authors: Brousseau, Guy (Author), Brousseau, Nadine (Author), Warfield, Virginia (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Education.; Mathematics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Mathematics Education.; Applications of Mathematics.; Mathematics, general.; Learning & Instruction.

This work presents one of the original and fundamental experiments of Didactique, a research program whose underlying tenet is that Mathematics Education research should be solidly based on scientific observation. Here the observations are of a series of adventures that were astonishing for both the...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Adventure of the Students
• 2. Viewing the Adventure from the Perspective of Teachers and Researchers
• 3. Some Key Concepts and Terms from the Theory of Situations
• 4. The Setting for the Adventure
• 5. Description of the Center for Observation for Research in Mathematics Education
• 6. Conclusions and future directions.