Event Title
Smart Cookies: Preparing Children for Proof and Argumentation Through a Visual Logic Game
Location
Hart 116
Start Time
15-5-2013 11:05 AM
End Time
15-5-2013 12:05 PM
Description
Argumentation and proof are an ever-growing focus in elementary and secondary mathematics education, and beyond. Currently there are no elementary school curricula which provide direct, age-appropriate opportunities for students to engage with deductive reasoning and prepositional logic. I have coauthored a game (Smart Cookies, publication date Spring 2013) which engages young children (and adults) in prepositional logic based on language-free, visual clues. This game, along with a supplementary curriculum I am currently working on, will enhance teachers' ability to develop elementary students' deductive reasoning in a game-like context. It will also provide a basis for a research instrument which will help advance scholarship in this area. During this workshop, I will briefly review the available research on children’s deductive reasoning. Participants will play, analyze the logic behind the clues and build logical arguments in a visual context.
Smart Cookies: Preparing Children for Proof and Argumentation Through a Visual Logic Game
Hart 116
Argumentation and proof are an ever-growing focus in elementary and secondary mathematics education, and beyond. Currently there are no elementary school curricula which provide direct, age-appropriate opportunities for students to engage with deductive reasoning and prepositional logic. I have coauthored a game (Smart Cookies, publication date Spring 2013) which engages young children (and adults) in prepositional logic based on language-free, visual clues. This game, along with a supplementary curriculum I am currently working on, will enhance teachers' ability to develop elementary students' deductive reasoning in a game-like context. It will also provide a basis for a research instrument which will help advance scholarship in this area. During this workshop, I will briefly review the available research on children’s deductive reasoning. Participants will play, analyze the logic behind the clues and build logical arguments in a visual context.