II. THE CLASS
A. Outline
A. Outline
§We
will learn about this method of producing and understanding
variation.
§Read
Stanovich’s very entertaining account of how psychologists produce and
understand variation.
§Read Borden’s and Abbott’s
process account of how to produce and understand variation.
§Produce
and understand variation in our own study
§We will examine conditions
related to variation in student’s algebraic thinking skills. That is, are there conditions that we can vary to
get students to think like mathematicians about critical algebraic concepts.