PROCEEDINGS OF THE 17TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2014
Denver, Colorado
Proof Scripts As A Lens For Exploring Proof Comprehension
Page: 1198
We examine perspective secondary teachers’ conceptions of what constitutes comprehension of a given proof and their ideas of how students’ comprehension can be evaluated. These are explored using a relatively novel approach, scripted dialogues. The analysis utilizes and refines Mejia-Ramos, Fuller, Weber, Rhoads and Samkoff’s (2012) proof comprehension framework. We suggest that this refinement is applicable to other studies on proof comprehension.