RUME 27
2025
Alexandria, Virginia
Here's What "I" Do: Investigating the Actions Students Take in Proof Comprehension Tasks
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Literature around the reading of proof has focused on experts and the strategies they use to understand the texts they are reading (Fang & Chapman, 2020; Paul, 2018) or in comparing students to experts in what the reader focuses on as they read using eye-tracking technology (e.g., Inglis & Alcock, 2012). Few have investigated the students and their strategies (Weber, 2015). In this preliminary report, we describe the most frequently seen actions taken by participants during various proof comprehension tasks. Our findings indicate that students use a variety of possible strategies to make sense of proofs they are reading. Some of these possible strategies are found to be used by mathematicians and secondary mathematics teachers, while other possible strategies are found to be used in general reading practices.