Thursday, November 13, 2014: 11:30 AM-12:00 PM
Grand Ballroom GHIJ (Marriott) (Marriott)
Lead Speaker:
Anna Athanasopoulou
Co-Speaker:
Michael G. Green
The presentation will incorporate a video clip of a sixth-grade student spontaneously constructing and explaining the Pythagorean theorem to solve a problem about the distance between two points. This student brought to the situation five years of constructivist mathematics in a school whose teachers emphasized sense making and schema building.
Presentation Format: 6-8 Burst
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8