The Development of Multiplicative Reasoning in the Learning of Mathematics (Reform Math Education (Dis)) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791417646 ISBN 13: 9780791417645

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1994

Synopsis

Two of the most important concepts children develop progressively throughout their mathematics education years are additivity and multiplicativity. Additivity is associated with situations that involve adding, joining, affixing, subtracting, separating and removing. Multiplicativity is associated with situations that involve duplicating, shrinking, stressing, sharing equally, multiplying, dividing, and exponentiating.

This book presents multiplicativity in terms of a multiplicative conceptual field (MCF), not as individual concepts. It is presented in terms of interrelations and dependencies within, between, and among multiplicative concepts. The authors share the view that research on the mathematical, cognitive, and instructional aspects of multiplicative concepts must be situated in an MCF framework.

About this title

About the Author

Guershon Harel is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University

Jere Confrey is Associate Professor of Education at Cornell University.

Review

“An excellent state-of-the-art sourcebook.” ― Anna O. Graeber, University of Maryland, College Park

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0791417646
• ISBN 13: 9780791417645
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 407
• Editor: Harel Guershon, Confrey Jere