MEMAT Research Colloquium | August

We are all set for the August MEMAT Research Colloquium:

“Collaborative work in indirect measurement processes: diversity and achievement in prospective teachers’ strategies”.

By: Francisco Rojas

Research CollaboratorMEMAT

The treatment of measurement in school is usually oriented towards arithmetic work, knowledge with which future teachers arrive at their initial training. For this reason, this study addresses the processes of indirect measurement as a strategy to analyze the variety and relevance of measurement strategies planned and executed by students. Based on four concrete situations involving measurement of lengths, surfaces and volumes, the student teachers carry out a collaborative and practical work proposing strategies for measuring, performing measurements, and establishing proposals for improvement of their measurement strategies. The theoretical foundations on which the work is based will be presented, as well as the characterizations of the students’ productions, and new analyses to identify the impact of the proposal on individual and collective knowledge.