posted on 2013-03-21, 14:58authored byBarbara Jaworski
Research into the teaching of mathematics to engineering students to
promote their conceptual understanding (Jaworski and Matthews 2011)
has shown the problematic nature of planning for and identifying
understanding. I review the project briefly and introduce the idea of
competencies from the Danish project, KOM (translated as Competencies
and Mathematical Learning). Through the medium of designing inquirybased
tasks for students and use of the competency framework for
analysis of tasks, I consider the relevance of such a competency-based
analysis and its usefulness (or otherwise) for recognising student
understanding. This leads to important questions for further research of a
developmental nature.
History
School
Science
Department
Mathematics Education Centre
Citation
JAWORSKI, B., 2012. Mathematical competence framework : an aid to identifying understanding? IN: Smith, C. (ed.) Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics, University of Cambridge, 17 November 2012, 32 (3), pp. 103 - 109.