Isabel Vale, Ana Barbosa Abstract Creativity plays an important role in mathematics learning, so teachers must provide students with appropriate learning opportunities. This means using tasks, in particular those with multiple solutions and/or multiple resolutions, that usually require creative thinking… Read More ›
Mathematics Education
Developing flexible-adaptive reasoning and computing: Pedro’s understanding of the task “Prawn skewers”
Joana Brocardo, Jean-Marie Kraemer, Fátima Mendes, Catarina Delgado Abstract The project ‘Numerical thinking and flexible calculation: critical issues’ aims to study students’ conceptual knowledge associated with the understanding of the different levels of learning numbers and operations. We follow the… Read More ›
A Creative Approach to Isometries Integrating Geogebra and Italc with ‘Paper And Pencil’ Environments
Artur Coelho, Isabel Cabrita Abstract Creativity is recognized nowadays as a basic skill. However, the educational system fails in promoting their development. On the other hand, a growing acknowledgement of the importance of geometry emerges. Conceptual renewal, namely on isometries,… Read More ›
Visualization in pattern generalization: Potential and Challenges
Visualization in pattern generalization: Potential and Challenges Ana Barbosa, Isabel Vale Abstract This study tries to understand how pre-service teachers, for basic education, solve problems involving the generalization of visual patterns, identifying: the strategies used; the difficulties presented; the role… Read More ›
CWF in Blog: Challenging Weekends in Family Around Mathematics
Sofia Ramos, Lina Fonseca Abstract Family and school should provide children with necessarily different, but connected, learning environments. The effective relationship between these educational instances promotes school success and the quality of this relationship is particularly important when referring to… Read More ›
The Inverse Relation Between the Size and the Number of Parts
Ema Mamede, Isabel Vasconcelos Abstract This study analyzes children’s understanding of the inverse relationship between size and number of parts when fractions and division situations are involved. A survey by questionnaire was conducted with 42 Portuguese fourth-graders trying to address… Read More ›
The Symmetry Concept of the Basic Education Teachers
Cláudia Maia-Lima, Angela Couto Abstract The curricular changes that have occurred with the Mathematics syllabus of 2007 and 2013 showed, among other situations, the introduction of new contents and the conceptual change of symmetry. For the teachers, these changes require scientific updates… Read More ›
Math Trails: Meaningful Mathematics Outside the Classroom With Pre-Service Teachers
Ana Barbosa, Isabel Vale Abstract This paper presents a study about the potential of the construction of math trails as a non-formal context in the teaching and learning of mathematics. This research is of qualitative nature and was developed with… Read More ›
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