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Title: APPLYING A COMMOGNITIVE-BASED FRAMEWORK TO PROMOTE TEACHERS’ COMMUNICATION ABOUT REASONING AND PROVING
This study presents how the commognitive-based Opportunities for Reasoning and Proving (ORP) Framework, developed for research purposes to analyze mathematical tasks, was applied as a learning tool for teachers. Seven novice secondary teachers, who participated in a professional learning community around integrating reasoning and proving, were introduced to the ORP Framework and engaged in a sorting tasks activity. We show how the ORP Framework helped teachers to focus on the ORP embedded in tasks, to attend to student mathematical work, and to communicate about ORP coherently and unambiguously. We discuss the affordances of using a framework, which relies on the operationalized discursive language of commognition, to promote teachers’ communication around reasoning and proving.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1941720
PAR ID:
10510463
Author(s) / Creator(s):
;
Editor(s):
Ayalon, M; Koichu, B; Leikin, R; Rubel, L; Tabach, M
Publisher / Repository:
Proceedings of the 46th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the 46th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education
Volume:
4
Page Range / eLocation ID:
339–346
Format(s):
Medium: X
Location:
Haifa, Israel
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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