Textual descriptions in mathematics
Although mathematics makes extensive use of formal language, teaching mathematics involves using textual descriptions.
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The set P of all subsets of the set {1,…,10}, which are disjoint to the set {1,…,5}.
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Decoding work done
Identification of bottleneck
Given statements in natural language involving set descriptions or quantifiers students find it difficult to formalize such statements, in particular if there is more than one quantifier involved.
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Description of mental tasks needed to overcome the bottleneck
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Modelling the tasks
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Practice and Feedback
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Anticipate and lessen resistance
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Assessment of student mastery
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Sharing
Lost in Language Comprehension
Researchers involved
Peter Riegler
Available Resources
See also
Notes
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