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Investigating secondary school students' epistemologies through a class activity concerning infinity
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posted on 2018-07-23, 09:15 authored by Paola Iannone, Davide Rizza, Athina ThomaIn this paper, we report findings from a pilot study investigating school students’
epistemologies of mathematics by using novel mathematics definitions. Students aged
17 and 18-year-old in Italy and the UK were asked to complete a worksheet that used a
numerical approach to determine the sizes of infinite sets and were, then, invited to
attend focus group interviews about their experience with the material. Thematic
analysis of the interviews reveals that this approach is useful to distinguish between
naive and advanced epistemologies and using unseen mathematical definitions can
help enrich our understanding of epistemologies held by students of school age.
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140 - 148 (8)Citation
IANNONE, P., RIZZA, D. and THOMA, A., 2018. Investigating secondary school students' epistemologies through a class activity concerning infinity. IN: Bergqvist, E. ... et al (eds). Proceedings of the 42nd Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME42), Umea, Sweden, 3-8 July 2018, vol.3, pp.131-138.Publisher
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