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Matthew Inglis
Matthew
Inglis
Adrian Simpson
Adrian
Simpson
The role of mathematical context in evaluating conditional statements
Loughborough University
2011
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Conference contribution
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/conference_contribution/The_role_of_mathematical_context_in_evaluating_conditional_statements/9373628
Recently there has been increasing interest in the mathematics education research
community about the role of logic in the teaching, learning and production of
mathematics. In this paper we investigate how conditional statements are evaluated
by successful mathematics students, and argue that the role of context is vital to
determine the manner in which this evaluation proceeds. We use two versions of the
so-called Labyrinth Task, one in it’s original context and one in an overtly
mathematical context. We report results that indicates that the manner in which
conditional statements are evaluated on these tasks differs depending on the context.
These results are supplemented by data from a qualitative task-based interview study.