National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2013 Research Presession

Please note: The NCTM conference program is subject to change.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013: 1:20 PM
Room 201 (Colorado Convention Center)
Andrew Corley , North Carolina State University, CARY, NC
Jere Confrey , North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Alan Maloney , North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Description:
This study reports on what it means for students to move through the levels of a learning trajectory (LT) for equipartitioning and to develop an understanding of the necessity of preceding levels—how they serve as precursory knowledge for later levels, particularly the upper-level concepts of co-splitting and equipartitioning multiple wholes, as related to forms of composition and distribution.