PROCEEDINGS OF THE 22ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2019
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Writing out a group: Interpreting student generated representations of the group concept
Page: 853
In this presentation I will explore the various ways in which a pair of students used representations of the group concept to explore the structure of symmetry groups. During a series of teaching experiments, a pair of mathematics education graduate students were asked to develop an algorithm for classifying chemically important point groups beginning with an investigation of a few ball and stick models of molecules. The progress the students made through the use of each symbolization of the group concept is framed with the Realistic Mathematics Education design heuristic of emergent models.