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Forming conjectures within a spreadsheet environment

Abstract
This paper is concerned with the use of spreadsheets within mathematical investigational tasks. Considering the learning of both children and pre-service teaching students, it examines how mathematical phenomena can be seen as a function of the pedagogical media through which they are encountered. In particular, it shows how pedagogical apparatus influence patterns of social interaction, and how this interaction shapes the mathematical ideas that are engaged with. Notions of conjecture, along with the particular faculty of the spreadsheet setting, are considered with regard to the facilitation of mathematical thinking. Employing an interpretive perspective, a key focus is on how alternative pedagogical media and associated discursive networks influence the way that students form and test informal conjectures.
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Journal Article
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Calder, N., Brown, T., Hanley, U. & Darby, S. (2006). Forming conjectures within a spreadsheet environment. Mathematics Education Research Journal, 18(3), 100-116.
Date
2006
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M E R G A
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This article has been published in the journal: Mathematics Education Research Journal. © 2006 Mathematics Education Research Journal.