I am interested in using the instrument to assess mathematical argumentation skills of primary / middle school students. Anybody can recommend me literature on this topic?
Dear Nijole Sibulskaite,
Generally speaking, within educational contexts and in courses on mathematics, mathematical arguments are mostly based on justifications since students employ specific evidential and reasoning tactics to persuade others that the solution they have come up with is credible. On some occasions, students resort to generalizations or patterns they have noticed in order to substantiate their claims. As such, students in the primary or middle school math classes learn to examine the problem by drawing in on these mathematical argumentation skills in order to develop mathematical claims (Rumsey 2013). I think that the best instrument for gauging these skills is the use of retrospective commentary. For using this qualitative data collecting method, you should first give a math test to students. Then after a few days, go over the test items with the presence of each student and ask them which reasoning skills they employed to reach the expected solution.In this way, the researcher can have an emic perspectivization of mathematical argumentation skills which learners used to solve the targeted problems.
Best regards,
R. Biria
Dear Reza Biria,
thank you a lot for the comment and the link to C.Rumsey's article.
Regards
Thank you for your respond. Your advice to use the retrospective commentary method is very adaptable, I will inquire about this qualitative strategy more.
Best wishes
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