Relational Reasoning: Potential Implications for Mathematics Pedagogy
The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics encourage reasoning about the relationships between math concepts. Relational reasoning is a skill that children develop and use spontaneously in non-mathematical contexts, but rarely do in math class. In particular, fractions and algebra are two major stumbling blocks for students, and both are highly relational in nature. Would engaging students' relational reasoning abilities help them to learn fractions and algebra? In this talk I'll discuss several ways in which I've approached this question and sketch out my plans for dissertation research.
This talk will be held in 3105 Tolman Hall, 12:00-1:30pm.
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