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(2018) Invited lectures from the 13th international congress on mathematical education, Dordrecht, Springer.
Script-writing is a novel pedagogical approach and research tool in mathematics education. The goal of this chapter is to introduce the approach and exemplify its implementation. A script-writing task presents a prompt, which usually includes an incomplete argument or erroneous claim of a student. Prospective teachers address the prompt by creating a script for a dialogue—presenting an imaginary interaction between a teacher and her students, or among different students. In this chapter I exemplify several results of implementing script-writing tasks and discuss advantages of this approach. In particular, I focus on the concepts related to elementary number theory, prime numbers and factors of a number, and demonstrate how the understanding of these concepts can be explored and refined, as script-writers create characters who discuss particular claims. I suggest that engaging prospective teachers in script-writing is one possible way to support and improve preparation of mathematics teachers.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-72170-5_42
Full citation:
Zazkis, R. (2018)., Dialogues on numbers: script-writing as approximation of practice, in G. Kaiser, H. Forgasz, M. Graven, A. Kuzniak, E. Simmt & B. Xu (eds.), Invited lectures from the 13th international congress on mathematical education, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 749-767.
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