RUME 26
2024
Omaha, Nebraska
Exploring How Use of a Shared Google Doc for Collective Proof Construction Supports Students’ Mathematical Progress
Page: 485
While the pandemic brought much hardship for mathematics education, it also brought opportunity for ingenuity and transformation. This study builds on results from prior work that found Google Docs to be rich tools that supported students in effectively engaging in collaborative proof activity in a remote introduction-to-proofs course. To study if Google Docs would have similar benefits for students’ collective proof activity in a face-to-face setting, we investigate how two students in a face-to-face course leveraged a shared Google Doc to support their collaborative work on a proof construction task. We found that the students used the shared Google Doc to support their collective proof construction in similar ways as students in the remote class. In addition, we observed that the Google Doc was an inherent component of students engaging in an active proof writing process.