Functional thinking shown by kindergarten students
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https://doi.org/10.24197/edmain.2.2017.1-13Keywords:
Early Childhood Education, Pattern, Generalization, Functional thinkingAbstract
We present results from 12 kindergarten students (5-6 years old) of a private school in Granada. We work with them during three sessions using a design research methodology. In these sessions, we proposed the students three familiar situations, using different representations, and involving the functions y=x, y=2x, y=x+1. In the results, we show that these students evidenced functional thinking through correspondence and co-variation functional relationships. Some of the students perceived the patterns and achieved the generalization.
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