Given its abstract nature and the highly syntactical competence required by the use of symbolic algebra, research on its teaching and learning must rely on approaches that include semiotic concepts and analyses that recall the history of algebraic ideas, among others. Educational Algebra: A Theoretical and Empirical Approach deals with a theoretical perspective on the study of school algebra, in which both components (semiotics and history) occur. This perspective runs opposite to general theoretical models, since it submits components for the design of local frameworks for theoretical...
Given its abstract nature and the highly syntactical competence required by the use of symbolic algebra, research on its teaching and learning must...
This book takes a theoretical perspective on the study of school algebra, in which both semiotics and history occur. The Methodological design allows for the interpretation of specific phenomena and the inclusion of evidence not addressed in more general treatments. The book gives priority to "meaning in use" over "formal meaning." These approaches and others of similar nature lead to a focus on competence rather than a user's activity with mathematical language.
This book takes a theoretical perspective on the study of school algebra, in which both semiotics and history occur. The Methodological design allo...
