Self-corrective Workbooks: conceptually meaningful learning and overcoming misconceptions in teaching fractions

• Grant number: 22/01609-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2022
• End date: February 29, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education - Educational Teaching and Learning
• Principal Investigator: Marcelo Firer
• Grantee: Laura Santos Afonso Ferreira
• Host Institution: Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica (IMECC). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In this project, we intend to analyze to what extent the material Self-corrective Workbooks: Fractions, developed by a team from the Teaching Residency Program of the Licentiate in Mathematics course at Unicamp, contributes to a better conceptual understanding of fraction-related contents, allowing the overcoming of the most prevalent misconceptions. We intend to develop this analysis in the sense of concept encapsulation, from the point of view of Dubinsky's Action-Process-Object-Schema (APOS) theory, with a special focus on overcoming misconceptions, based on known studies on the subject.(AU)