PROCEEDINGS OF THE 18TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2015
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A study of mathematical behaviors
Page: 600
In this poster presentation we bring together different characterizations of mathematical thinking, doing and behaving that researchers have brought forward over the last three decades, to compose, in a way of speaking, a collage! of what we came to call mathematical! behaviors. In previous work, we have combined some of these characterizations to identify opportunities to engage in mathematical behaviors that students may encounter in undergraduate courses, and to design and analyze tasks that may foster the development of such behaviors. The poster format allows us to play with a pictorial representation that reveals the relations and complementarities between the ‘images’ of the collage. We hope to discuss (a) these relations and complementarities, (b) strategies to foster the development of mathematical behaviors in undergraduate mathematics students, and (c) methods that may allow us, as researchers or as teachers, to compose accounts of students’ mathematical behaviors.