Posted by: Drew | November 3, 2009

Education

Multiplication chart
Grounds embodied notion for
Ratio, proportion

Dor Abrahamson

University of California, Berkeley

Dissertation Title: “Keeping Meaning in Proportion: The Multiplication Table as a Case of Pedagogical Bridging Tools”
My dissertation describes a design-based research study in mathematics education, in which a 5th-grade classroom learned the concepts of ratio and proportion by using the multiplication table to narrate dramatized situations involving proportional growth.  It can be downloaded here.


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