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http://dx.doi.org/10.7468/jksmec.2017.20.1.53

How Do Elementary School Students Understand Tables? : From Functional Thinking Perspective  

Kim, JeongWon (Sintanjin Elementary School)
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Education of Primary School Mathematics / v.20, no.1, 2017 , pp. 53-68 More about this Journal
Abstract
Although the table, as one of the representations for helping mathematics understanding, steadily has been shown in the mathematics textbooks, there have been little studies that focus on the table and analyze how the table may be used in understanding students' functional thinking. This study investigated the elementary school 5th graders' abilities to design function tables. The results showed that about 75% of the students were able to create tables for themselves, which shaped horizontal and included information only from the problem contexts. And the students had more difficulties in solving geometric growing pattern problems than story problems. Building on these results, this paper is expected to provide implications of instructional directions of how to use the table as 'function table'.
Keywords
Function table; Functional thinking; making a table;
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