Revealing hidden mathematics curriculum to pre-teachers using technology: the case of partitions

Autor:	Peter Brouwer, Sergei Abramovich
Rok vydání:	2003
Předmět:	Mathematics (miscellaneous) Applied Mathematics Perspective (graphical) ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Mathematics education Mathematics curriculum Curriculum Education Mathematics
Zdroj:	International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology. 34:81-94
ISSN:	1464-5211 0020-739X
DOI:	10.1080/0020739021000053846
Popis:	Motivated by work done with pre-teachers of mathematics in a problem-solving course, this paper shows how computing technologies, including a spreadsheet and Maple, facilitate an informal journey into a hidden aspect of the formal content of the pre-college curriculum dealing with the arithmetic of partitions. By using three problems from different grade levels within a state curriculum as an example, the paper suggests that a deeper perspective on seemingly disconnected problem-solving contexts may serve as a powerful didactical tool in helping teachers to appreciate mathematics and its pedagogy as an integrated whole. The connection of the hidden aspect of the curriculum to the concept of mathematical play is also explored.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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