RUME 27
2025
Alexandria, Virginia
Argument-Mirroring Proof-Texts: A Tool for Leveraging Students’ Incoherent Thinking to Effect Greater Coherence
Page: 1576
"This report details a teaching experiment (Steffe & Thompson, 2000) which consisted of clinical interviews (Clement, 2000) and exploratory teaching interviews (Sellers, 2020) designed to perturb selected students’ incoherent thinking. In short, this study addressed the following research questions: 1) In what ways are students’ understandings of the chain rule coherent with one another? 2) How do students respond to proof-texts which mirror their own incoherent thinking?"