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Solving a contextual problem with the spreadsheet as an environment for algebraic thinking development

2012; Oxford University Press; Volume: 31; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/teamat/hrr026

1471-6976

Silvana Ribeiro Nobre, Nélia Amado, Susana Carreira,

Mathematics Education and Pedagogy

Journal Article Solving a contextual problem with the spreadsheet as an environment for algebraic thinking development Get access Sandra Nobre, Sandra Nobre * †Escola Básica 2,3 Prof. Paula Nogueira and Unidade de Investigação do Instituto de Educação, Universidade de Lisboa Sandra Nobre is a middle school mathematics teacher at the Escola Básica 2,3 Professor Paula Nogueira. She has collaborated in the national mathematics teacher training programme within the current Portuguese reform in the mathematics curriculum for elementary and middle schools. She is developing her doctorate research in mathematics education at the Institute of Education of the University of Lisbon. Her research domain is students' development of algebraic thinking through the use of the spreadsheet in problem-solving tasks. *Email: sandraggnobre@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Nélia Amado, Nélia Amado ‡‡FCT da Universidade do Algarve and Unidade de Investigação do Instituto de Educação, Universidade de Lisboa Nélia Amado is assistant professor of mathematics education and mathematics in the Mathematics Department of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Algarve. She is currently teaching in pre-service teacher education and postgraduate studies in mathematics education. She is a researcher at the Research Unit of the Institute of Education, University of Lisbon. Her research work involves teachers' professional practice, including the use of technology in classroom, formative assessment in mathematics teaching and learning, and problem solving, in both school curriculum and beyond-school contexts. She is a member of the Problem@Web Project, which aims to understand students' problem-solving activity in a web-based regional mathematical competition. She is also a member of the national committee that supports current Portuguese reform in the mathematics curriculum for elementary and middle schools. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Susana Carreira Susana Carreira ‡‡FCT da Universidade do Algarve and Unidade de Investigação do Instituto de Educação, Universidade de Lisboa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Teaching Mathematics and its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 11–19, https://doi.org/10.1093/teamat/hrr026 Published: 07 February 2012 Article history Received: 01 November 2011 Accepted: 01 December 2011 Published: 07 February 2012