Document Type
Journal Article
Department/Unit
Department of Education Studies
Title
Students’ geometrical perception on a task-based dynamic geometry platform
Language
English
Abstract
This paper describes a task-based dynamic geometry platform that is able to record student responses in a collective fashion to pre-designed dragging tasks. The platform provides a new type of data and opens up a quantitative dimension to interpret students' geometrical perception in dynamic geometry environments. The platform is capable of generating a collective image map of student geometrical perceptions for a pre-designed dragging task. This map is interpreted as students' qualitatively different ways of perceiving a geometrical phenomenon under the drag mode, ways which are quantified and categorized in a collective way. The idea of task perceptual landscape is proposed to facilitate discussion on the pedagogical significance of this platform. Specifically, a task case is presented and analysed in which a methodology is developed that provides a way to classify students' geometrical perceptions with respect to the task. The task perceptual landscape is interpreted as a collective example space of student perception of a task. Furthermore, an idea of personal example space is developed through the findings from a qualitative study for the same task. This brings about discussion on possible pedagogical correlation between the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the platform. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
Keywords
Dynamic geometry, Example space, Geometrical perception, Variation
Publication Date
2013
Source Publication Title
Educational Studies in Mathematics
Volume
82
Issue
3
Start Page
361
End Page
377
Publisher
Springer Verlag
DOI
10.1007/s10649-012-9433-7
Link to Publisher's Edition
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10649-012-9433-7
ISSN (print)
00131954
ISSN (electronic)
15730816
APA Citation
Leung, A., & Lee, A. (2013). Students’ geometrical perception on a task-based dynamic geometry platform. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 82 (3), 361-377. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-012-9433-7