INVESTIGATION OF ABSTRACTION PROCESSES IN CONSTRUCTIVIST LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
YAPILANDIRMACI ÖĞRENME ORTAMINDAKİ BİLGİ OLUŞTURMA SÜREÇLERİNİN İNCELENMESİ

Author : Recai AKKAYA -Murat ALTUN
Number of pages : 192-213

Abstract

The aim of this study is to design learning environments, suitable for Constructivism Approaches that influence students’ mathematics education in terms of constructing meaningful mathematics knowledge; to apply the designed instruction, to report it and to examine the quality of knowledge formation within this process. To this aim, instruction of dependent and independent events concepts was carried out in the study. Case study was used as a qualitative research method. The main data resource of the research is the interview technique. The study was carried out with two eighth grade students. In conformity with the principles of constructivist learning, the students were asked solve four sequential problems which are suitable for observing the actions in abstraction process and givin students the chance to use their previous experiences and knowledge as much as possible. According to data from study, activity which based on constructivist teaching to be effective in creating the concepts of dependent and independent event, the students using the structures already created, and reasoning correctly observed that the inteded structure can construct.

Keywords

Constructivist Learning, abstraction process, RBC+C

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