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An Analysis of Lessons on Geometric Patterns for Developing Functional Thinking of Elementary School Students  

Pang, JeongSuk (Korea National University of Education)
SunWoo, Jin (Graduate School, Korea National University of Education)
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Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics / v.26, no.4, 2016 , pp. 769-789 More about this Journal
Abstract
Pattern activities are useful to develop functional thinking of young students, but there has been lack of research on how to teach patterns. This study explored teaching methods of geometric patterns for developing functional thinking of elementary school students, and then analyzed the lessons in which such methods were implemented. For this, three classrooms of fourth grades in elementary schools were selected and three teachers taught geometric patterns on the basis of the same lesson plan. The lessons emphasized noticing the commonality of a given pattern, expanding the noti ce for the commonality, and representing the commonality. The results of this study showed that experience of analyzing the structure of a geometric pattern had a significant impact on how the fourth graders reasoned about the generalized rules of the given pattern and represented them in various methods. This paper closes with several implications to teach geometric patterns in a way to foster functional thinking.
Keywords
geometric patterns; teaching methods of patterns; functional thinking;
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