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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages | 35-41 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Support for Learning |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 9 Feb 2009 |
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Keywords
- mathematics
- pedagogy
- understanding
- moderate learning difficulties
- learning difficulties
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Tools or crutches? Apparatus as a sense-making aid in mathematics teaching with children with moderate learning difficulties. / Moscardini, L.
In: Support for Learning, Vol. 24, No. 1, 09.02.2009, p. 35-41.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - Tools or crutches? Apparatus as a sense-making aid in mathematics teaching with children with moderate learning difficulties
AU - Moscardini, L.
N1 - This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Moscardini, L. (2009). Tools or crutches? Apparatus as a sense-making aid in mathematics teaching with children with moderate learning difficulties. Support for Learning, 24(1), 35-41, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9604.2009.01395.x, This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
PY - 2009/2/9
Y1 - 2009/2/9
N2 - This paper challenges a view of concrete materials as abstracts used within a rigid instructional sequence that particular children are perceived to require or not, as the case may be. Focussing on mathematics teaching, it contends that it is more useful to consider the function of these materials as tools, artefacts used flexibly and selectively by pupils to make sense of mathematics, rather than as crutches, devices which may support procedural competency in mathematics but with no guarantees of understanding.
AB - This paper challenges a view of concrete materials as abstracts used within a rigid instructional sequence that particular children are perceived to require or not, as the case may be. Focussing on mathematics teaching, it contends that it is more useful to consider the function of these materials as tools, artefacts used flexibly and selectively by pupils to make sense of mathematics, rather than as crutches, devices which may support procedural competency in mathematics but with no guarantees of understanding.
KW - mathematics
KW - pedagogy
KW - understanding
KW - moderate learning difficulties
KW - learning difficulties
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DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9604.2009.01395.x
M3 - Article
VL - 24
SP - 35
EP - 41
JO - Support for Learning
T2 - Support for Learning
JF - Support for Learning
SN - 0268-2141
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