Textual descriptions in mathematics

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Decoding work done

Identification of bottleneck

Given statements in natural language involving set descriptions or quantifiers students find it difficult to formalize such statements, in particular if there is more than one quantifier involved.

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Description of mental tasks needed to overcome the bottleneck

Parsing ... Good Enough Theory

Modelling the tasks

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Practice and Feedback

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Anticipate and lessen resistance

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Assessment of student mastery

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Sharing

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Researchers involved

Peter Riegler

References

Riegler, Peter (2019): Lost in Language Comprehension: Decoding putatively extra-disciplinary expertise. In Proceedings of EuroSoTL19: Exploring new fields through the scholarship of teaching and learning, Bilbao, 685-691