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Beschreibung
Childrens Fractional Knowledge elegantly tracks the construction of knowledge, both by children learning new methods of reasoning and by the researchers studying their methods. The book challenges the widely held belief that childrens whole number knowledge is a distraction from their learning of fractions by positing that their fractional learning involves reorganizingnot simply using or building upontheir whole number knowledge. This hypothesis is explained in detail using examples of actual grade-schoolers approaching problems in fractions including the schemes they construct to relate parts to a whole, to produce a fraction as a multiple of a unit part, to transform a fraction into a commensurate fraction, or to combine two fractions multiplicatively or additively.

These case studies provide a singular journey into childrens mathematics experience, which often varies greatly from that of adults. Moreover, the authors descriptive terms reflect childrens quantitative operations, as opposed to adult mathematical phrases rooted in concepts that do not reflectand which in the classroom may even suppressyoungsters learning experiences.

Highlights of the coverage:

Toward a formulation of a mathematics of living instead of being

Operations that produce numerical counting schemes

Case studies: childrens part-whole, partitive, iterative, and other fraction schemes

Using the generalized number sequence to produce fraction schemes

Redefining school mathematics

This fresh perspective is of immediate importance to researchers in mathematics education. With the up-close lens onto mathematical development found in Childrens Fractional Knowledge, readers can work toward creating more effective methods for improving young learners quantitative reasoning skills.
Childrens Fractional Knowledge elegantly tracks the construction of knowledge, both by children learning new methods of reasoning and by the researchers studying their methods. The book challenges the widely held belief that childrens whole number knowledge is a distraction from their learning of fractions by positing that their fractional learning involves reorganizingnot simply using or building upontheir whole number knowledge. This hypothesis is explained in detail using examples of actual grade-schoolers approaching problems in fractions including the schemes they construct to relate parts to a whole, to produce a fraction as a multiple of a unit part, to transform a fraction into a commensurate fraction, or to combine two fractions multiplicatively or additively.

These case studies provide a singular journey into childrens mathematics experience, which often varies greatly from that of adults. Moreover, the authors descriptive terms reflect childrens quantitative operations, as opposed to adult mathematical phrases rooted in concepts that do not reflectand which in the classroom may even suppressyoungsters learning experiences.

Highlights of the coverage:

Toward a formulation of a mathematics of living instead of being

Operations that produce numerical counting schemes

Case studies: childrens part-whole, partitive, iterative, and other fraction schemes

Using the generalized number sequence to produce fraction schemes

Redefining school mathematics

This fresh perspective is of immediate importance to researchers in mathematics education. With the up-close lens onto mathematical development found in Childrens Fractional Knowledge, readers can work toward creating more effective methods for improving young learners quantitative reasoning skills.
Zusammenfassung

Original work on children's construction of fractional knowledge

Provides new research on how the teaching of fractions can be dramatically improved

Written by pioneers in mathematics education

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter I. A New Hypothesis Concerning Children's Fractional Knowledge
The Interference Hypothesis
The Separation Hypothesis
Next Steps Chapter II. Perspectives on Childrens Fraction Knowledge
On Opening the Trap
Fractions as Schemes
Mathematics of Living Rather Than Being Chapter III. Operations that Produce Numerical Counting Schemes
Complexes of Discrete Units
Recognition Templates of Perceptual Counting Schemes
Recognition Templates of Figurative Counting Schemes
Numerical Patterns and the Initial Number Sequence
The Tacitly Nested Number Sequence
The Explicitly Nested Number Sequence
An Awareness of Numerosity: A Quantitative Property
The Generalized Number Sequence
An Overview of the Principal Operations of the Numerical Counting Schemes
Final Comments Chapter IV: Articulation of the Reorganization Hypothesis
Perceptual and Figurative Length
Piaget's Gross, Intensive, and Extensive Quantity
Composite Structures as Templates for Fragmenting
Partitioning and Iterating
Final Comments Chapter V: The Partitive and the Part-Whole Schemes
The Equi-Partitioning Scheme
Segmenting to Produce a Connected Number
Making a Connected Number Sequence
An Attempt to Use Multiplying Schemes in the Construction of Composite Unit Fractions
Lauräs Simultaneous Partitioning Scheme
Jasons Partitive and Lauräs Part-Whole Fraction Schemes
Establishing Fractional Meaning for Multiple Parts of a Stick
Continued Absence of Fractional Numbers
An Attempt to Use Units-Coordinating to Produce Improper Fractions
Discussion of the Case Study Chapter VI. The Unit Composition and the Commensurate Schemes
The Unit Fraction Composition Scheme
Producing Composite Unit Fractions
Producing Fractions Commensurate with One-Half
ProducingFractions Commensurate With One-Third
Producing Fractions Commensurate With Two-Thirds
An Attempt to Engage Laura in the Construction of the Unit Fraction
Composition Scheme
Discussion of the Case Study Chapter VII. The Partitive, the Iterative, and the Unit Composition Schemes
Joes Attempts to Construct Composite Unit Fractions
Attempts to Construct a Unit Fraction of a Connected Number
Partitioning and Disembedding Operations
Joes Construction of a Partitive Fraction Scheme
Joes Production of an Improper Fraction
Patriciäs Recursive Partitioning Operations
The Splitting Operation: Corroboration in Joe and Contraindication in Patricia
A Lack of Distributive Reasoning
Emergence of the Splitting Operation in Patricia
Emergence of Joes Unit Fraction Composition Scheme
Joes Reversible Partitive Fraction Scheme
Joes Construction of the Iterative Fraction Scheme
A Constraint in the Childrens Unit Fraction Composition Scheme
Fractional Connected Number Sequences
Establishing Commensurate Fractions
Discussion of the Case Study Chapter VIII. Equi-Partitioning Operations for Connected Numbers: Their Use and Interiorization
Melissäs Initial Fraction Schemes
A Reorganization in Melissäs Units-Coordinating Scheme
Melissäs Construction of a Fractional Connected Number Sequence
Testing the Hypothesis that Melissa Could Construct a Commensurate
Fractional Scheme
Melissäs Use of the Operations that Produce Three Levels of Units in Re-presentation
A Child-Generated Fraction Adding Scheme
An Attempt to Bring Forth a Unit Fraction Adding Scheme
Discussion of the Case Study

Chapter IX. The Construction of Fraction Schemes Using the Generalized Number Sequence
The Case of Nathan During his 3rd Grade
Multiplication of Fractions and Nested Fractions
Equal
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Fachbereich: Didaktik/Methodik/Schulpädagogik/Fachdidaktik
Genre: Erziehung & Bildung, Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: xxiii
364 S.
ISBN-13: 9781489984661
ISBN-10: 1489984666
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Steffe, Leslie P.
Olive, John
Hersteller: Springer
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße: 235 x 155 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Leslie P. Steffe (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.09.2014
Gewicht: 0,587 kg
Artikel-ID: 105069222