Presentation
The reasoning proficiency
Education Conference Papers
Publication Date
1-1-2013
Abstract
If students are to reason mathematically, they need to be engaged in mathematically rich, investigative tasks that allow them to explain their thinking, justify the strategies they use and the conclusions they reach, and adapt the known to the unknown. 1he importance of contextualised Learning should be highlighted so students may be encouraged to transfer their learning from one context to another, explain their choices within a context, and compare and contrast related ideas. 1he reasoning proficiency naturally interrelates with the understanding, problem solving and fluency proficiencies.v
Keywords
- mathematical proficiencies,
- mathematical reasoning,
- contextualised learning
Disciplines
Citation Information
Lorraine Day and Derek Hurrell. "The reasoning proficiency" (2013) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/lorraine-day/21/
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