PROCEEDINGS OF THE 19TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2016
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Example construction in a transition-to-proof course
Page: 178
Accurately constructing examples and counterexamples is an important component of transition-to-proof courses. This study investigates how one instructor of a transition-to- proof course taught students to construct examples, and compares this instruction to the examples constructed by the students.