Wednesday, April 9, 2014: 2:45 PM-3:15 PM
Room 203/204 ( Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Lead Speaker:
Ian Whitacre
Co-Speaker:
Courtney Flack
Description of Presentation:
Mathematics involving negative numbers is often counterintuitive for students. We asked rising fifth graders to confront difficult questions to do with integers and to make sense of these via argumentation. We describe the learning trajectory that we theorize, drawing on data from a recent teaching experiment.
Session Type: Brief Research Report