Understanding the concepts of proportion and ratio constructed by two grade six students |
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Authors: | Parmjit Singh |
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Institution: | (1) University Technology Mara, Malaysia |
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Abstract: | The purpose of this study was to construct an understanding of two grade six students' proportional reasoning schemes. The
data from the clinical interviews gives insight as to the importance of multiplicative thinking in proportional reasoning.
Two mental operations, unitizing and iterating play an important role in student's use of multiplicative thinking in proportion
tasks. Unitizing a composite unit and iterating it to its referent point enables one to preserve the invariance of a ratio.
Proportions involved the coordination of two number sequences, keeping the ratio unit invariant under the iteration. In the
iteration process, one needed to explicitly conceptualize the iteration action of the composite ratio unit to make sense of
ratio problems and to have sufficient understanding of the meaning of multiplication and division and its relevance in the
iteration process. One needed to have constructed multiplicative structures and iteration schemes in order to reason proportionally.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | mathematics learning mathematics understanding multiplicativereasoning proportion proportional reasoning ratio |
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