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Showing what it looks like: teaching students to use diagrams in problem solving, communication, and thinking

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posted on 2021-05-17, 09:42 authored by Emmanuel Manalo, Yuri Uesaka, Ouhao ChenOuhao Chen, Hiroaki Ayabe
Cultivating the ability to use multiple representations is considered very important in 21st-century education. Students should be able to employ not only verbal representations but also visual representations such as diagrams to enable effective organization, understanding, and communication of information. However, despite this acknowledged importance, instruction in diagram use is rarely provided to students. In this chapter, we describe methods we have developed for the provision of such instruction and refer to evidence for their effectiveness, not only in improving students' spontaneity in using diagrams, but also in promoting deeper learning, communicative competencies, and critical thinking.

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School

  • Science

Department

  • Mathematics Education Centre

Published in

Deeper Learning, Dialogic Learning, and Critical Thinking: Research-based Strategies for the Classroom

Pages

231 - 246

Publisher

Routledge

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Rights holder

© The Authors

Publisher statement

This is an Open Access Chapter. It is published by Routledge under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2019-09-23

Copyright date

2020

ISBN

9780367262259; 9780367339586; 9780429323058

Language

  • en

Editor(s)

Emmanuel Manalo

Depositor

Dr Ouhao Chen. Deposit date: 16 May 2021

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