In this chapter, based on results obtained in several teaching experiments, we intend to discuss how some changes can be brought about at primary school level through classroom activities that are more easily related to the experiential world of the student and consistent with a sense-making disposition. As we shall see in our examples the activities make extensive use of suitable artifacts that, with their incorporated mathematics, can play a fundamental role in bringing students’ out-of-school reasoning experiences into play, by creating a new tension between school mathematics and everyday-life knowledge.

Working towards Teaching Realistic Mathematical Modeling and Problem Posing in Italian Classrooms

BONOTTO, CINZIA
2009

Abstract

In this chapter, based on results obtained in several teaching experiments, we intend to discuss how some changes can be brought about at primary school level through classroom activities that are more easily related to the experiential world of the student and consistent with a sense-making disposition. As we shall see in our examples the activities make extensive use of suitable artifacts that, with their incorporated mathematics, can play a fundamental role in bringing students’ out-of-school reasoning experiences into play, by creating a new tension between school mathematics and everyday-life knowledge.
2009
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