The objective of this project is to understand how information design– specifically informative illustration– can contribute to producing concept sketches for a science-fiction/puzzle game called Sky’s Edge. Through theoretical studies and research methods, I aimed to deepen my understanding of what makes a concept image a good one, and from that, I aimed to determine how informative illustration can help in designing and sketching the ideas that the job requester needed. The conducted theoretical studies indicated that a good concept image is one that contains ideas which are easily understood/communicated, can inspire the team, and in turn generate further discussion. They also revealed the vast advantages of thumbnail sketching– which can lead to the development of stronger ideas and compositions. Refined sketches and drawings are produced thereafter to present these ideas to the development team. The purpose of the resulting collection of concept images was to unify the visual direction of the team responsible for developing the game.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:58:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_marisa_dias.pdf: 305016 bytes, checksum: 8c51ea350b061d06dcc177b7f6a7a452 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-04-12 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The study investigated concept image and concept definition related to the properties of the number line, and particularly the notion of density. The subjects were 45 teachers of secondary school mathematics (students aged 11-16 years) from São Paulo (Brazil). It was hypothesised that the teachers conceptions would match those of students in the age range that they teach. In order to validate this hypothesis, a diagnostic test was developed and the results of the teachers were compared with results obtained in both national and international studies of students conceptions. Analysis confirmed the hypothesis and indicated that both the concept image and concept definition used by the teachers were not coherent with formal. A sub-set of four teachers also participated in interviews developed with the aim of creating situations in which potential conflict factors would become cognitive conflict factors. Teachers reactions during these interviews indicated that these situations helped them to enhance to a higher intellectual stages in their reasoning about the number line / Esta pesquisa investigou conceito imagem e conceito definição relacionados às propriedades da reta real e, particularmente, à noção de densidade. Os sujeitos foram 45 professores de matemática do ensino fundamental e médio de São Paulo (Brasil). A hipótese foi que concepções dos professores seriam as mesmas apresentadas por estudantes, desse mesmo segmento de ensino. Para validarmos esta hipótese, desenvolvemos um teste diagnóstico e comparamos os resultados dos professores com os obtidos em pesquisas nacionais e internacionais sobre as concepções de estudantes. A investigação confirmou a hipótese e evidenciou a existência de conceitos imagem e definição não coerentes com o formal. Um grupo de quatro professores também participou de entrevistas desenvolvidas com o objetivo de criar situações nas quais fatores de conflito potencial tornassem fatores de conflito cognitivo. As reações dos professores durante essas entrevistas indicaram que essas situações possibilitam-lhes alcançar estágios intelectuais mais elevados em relação à reta real

The purpose of this paper is to create increased understanding of how pupils learn statistics. This includes gaining insight into pupils' use of their own experience and group experience to help to get a better understanding of statistical problem solving. The study's research questions are about how pupils learn to work with data in tables and diagram and how pupils learn to work with measures. The theoretical framework consists of two approaches to studying learning. One approach is based on pupils’ cognitive conditions, called set-befores, and the pupils' previous experiences, called met-befores. The second starting point is the pragmatic mindset that focuses on the language game – how pupils learn during meetings between pupils and between pupils and teachers. The survey was conducted by using structured observations of pupils' statistical problem solving and the discourse that went on in the classroom. The one teacher and the teacher's pupils were observed during six sessions with small groups of Year 7 pupils, who in turn were part of two larger groups. The result showed that pupils were able to identify, understand and interpret statistical data by seeing patterns, similarities and differences. The participants' learning was affected by the language they used. Pupils were able to recreate images using reflective thought experiments during the meetings. The discussions helped the participants to get started with their thoughts and to give those thoughts some structure in developing and understanding the relationships between different diagrams. The teacher and the group helped the pupils to learn to interpret data while working. It made it easier if pupils to used the correct words when pupils had to argue. Proper use of words from the statistical register, when pupils worked with measures of center, also helped the pupils to develop cognitively. The pupils who could use the statistical register also became easier understood and respected by the group. / Syftet med denna uppsats är att skapa en ökad förståelse för hur eleverna löser statistiska uppgifter och lär sig statistik. I detta ingår det även att få insikt i elevers användning av sina erfarenheter och gruppens erfarenhet till hjälp för att få bättre förståelse för statistisk problemlösning. Studiens forskningsfrågor handlar om: Hur elever lär sig att arbeta med data i tabeller och diagram samt hur elever lär sig att arbeta med lägesmått. Det teoretiska ramverket består av två synsätt på lärande. Ett synsätt utgår från elevernas kognitiva förutsättningar, set-befores, samt elevernas tidigare erfarenheter, met-befores. Den andra utgångspunkten är det pragmatiska tankesättet som fokuserar på språkspelet. Hur eleverna lär sig under möten mellan eleverna samt mellan elever och lärare. Undersökningen genomfördes genom att använda strukturerade observationsstudier av elevernas statistiska problemlösning och de diskurser som pågick i klassrummet. Observationerna utgick från en lärare och den lärarens elever vilka observerades under sex lektionspass med smågrupper av årskurs 7 elever, vilka i sin tur ingick i två större grupper. Resultatet visar att eleverna kunde identifiera, förstå och tolka statistiskuppgifter genom att se mönster, likheter och olikheter. Deltagarnas lärande påverkades av språket och språkspelet som pågick. Eleverna kunde återskapa bilder med hjälp av reflekterande tankeexperiment under mötena. Mötena hjälpte deltagarna att komma igång med sina tankar och få struktur över dem samt utvecklas och förstå relationerna mellan olika diagram. Läraren och gruppen hjälpte eleverna att lära sig tolka data under arbetet. Det underlättade att använda rätt ord och statistikregister när eleverna behövde argumentera. Korrekt användning av ord från statistikregistret, exempelvis när eleverna arbetade med lägesmått, hjälpte även eleverna att utvecklas kognitivt. De elever som kunde använda statistikregistret blev också lättare förstådda och de respekterades av gruppen.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:36:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JoaoCBQ.pdf: 1363815 bytes, checksum: 1e07e6a070ddb0ed8acc6e7cea8e04c5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-19 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / This work aims to analyze the historical and epistemological development of the Group concept related to the theory on advanced mathematical thinking proposed by Dreyfus (1991). Thus it presents pedagogical resources that enable learning and teaching of algebraic structures as well as propose greater meaning of this concept in mathematical graduation programs. This study also proposes an answer to the following question: in what way a teaching approach that is centered in the Theory of Numbers and Theory of Equations is a model for the teaching of the concept of Group? To answer this question a historical reconstruction of the development of this concept is done on relating Lagrange to Cayley. This is done considering Foucault s (2007) knowledge archeology proposal theoretically reinforced by Dreyfus (1991). An exploratory research was performed in Mathematic graduation courses in Universidade Federal do Par? (UFPA) and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). The research aimed to evaluate the formation of concept images of the students in two algebra courses based on a traditional teaching model. Another experience was realized in algebra at UFPA and it involved historical components (MENDES, 2001a; 2001b; 2006b), the development of multiple representations (DREYFUS, 1991) as well as the formation of concept images (VINNER, 1991). The efficiency of this approach related to the extent of learning was evaluated, aiming to acknowledge the conceptual image established in student s minds. At the end, a classification based on Dreyfus (1991) was done relating the historical periods of the historical and epistemological development of group concepts in the process of representation, generalization, synthesis, and abstraction, proposed here for the teaching of algebra in Mathematics graduation course / O presente estudo analisa o desenvolvimento hist?rico-epistemol?gico do conceito de Grupo a luz da teoria do pensamento matem?tico avan?ado, proposto por Dreyfus (1991) e apresenta subs?dios did?ticos que contribuam para o ensino-aprendizagem das estruturas alg?bricas, visando dar maior significado ao referido conceito abordado na gradua??o em Matem?tica. Nesse sentido, o estudo responde a seguinte pergunta: de que maneira uma abordagem de ensino, inicialmente, centrada na Teoria dos N?meros e na Teoria das Equa??es se constituiria em um modelo de efetiva??o do ensino do conceito de Grupo? Para responder a quest?o fizemos uma reconstru??o hist?rica do desenvolvimento desse conceito, de Lagrange a Cayley, em uma reescrita orientada na arqueologia do saber proposta e discutida por Foucault (2007) e com o apoio te?rico em Dreyfus (1991) analisamos o material hist?rico elaborado. Em seguida, fizemos uma pesquisa explorat?ria com turmas da gradua??o em Matem?tica da Universidade Federal do Par? (UFPA) e da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), para avaliar a forma??o de imagens conceituais nos alunos participantes de dois cursos de ?lgebra baseado em um modelo tradicional de ensino. Al?m disso, realizamos outra experi?ncia, na UFPA, com o ensino de ?lgebra envolvendo, conjuntamente, a inclus?o da componente hist?rica (MENDES, 2001a; 2001b; 2006b), o desenvolvimento de m?ltiplas representa??es (DREYFUS, 1991) e a forma??o das imagens conceituais (VINNER, 1991). Avaliamos a efic?cia da abordagem em termos da profundidade no alcance do aprendizado, ou seja, a imagem conceitual estabelecida na mente dos alunos. Ao final, apresentamos uma classifica??o, baseada em Dreyfus (1991), que relaciona per?odos hist?ricos do desenvolvimento hist?rico-epistemol?gico do conceito de grupo aos processos de representa??o, generaliza??o, s?ntese e abstra??o, e uma proposta para um curso de ?lgebra na gradua??o em Matem?tica

Es ist eine weit verbreitete Wahrnehmung, dass der Übergang zwischen der Mathematik der gymnasialen Oberstufe und der Mathematik an der Universität für Studierende problematisch sein kann. Besondere Verständnisschwierigkeiten in Bereich der lineare Algebra (lA) bereiten den Studierenden die verschiedenen Herangehensweisen auf diesen beiden Ebenen. Dies lässt sich auf die strukturell-axiomatischer Herangehensweisen an die lA an der Universität, im Gegensatz zu ihrer arithmetisch-geometrischen Darstellung in der Schule, zurückführen. Dies bedingt ebenfalls Unterschiede im prozeduralen und konzeptuellen Verständnis. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, zu untersuchen, wie Schüler konzeptuelles Verständnis, Bezug nehmend auf die Theorien von concept definition/image in Verbindung mit multiplen Modi der Beschreibung und des Denkens von Konzepten wie Bilinearität z.B. Skalarprodukt und Multilinearität z.B. Determinanten gewinnen können. Um dies zu erreichen wurde eine substanzielle Lehr-Lernumgebung unter Verwendung einer dynamischen Geometriesoftware (DGS) entwickelt. Die Lerneinheit wurde an einem Berliner Gymnasium eingesetzt und dabei ein vollständiger design-based research Zyklus durchlaufen und eine multiple-level Datenanalyse durchgeführt. Die Ergebnisse der Untersuchung zeigen nicht nur, dass eine Erweiterung der Vorstellungen der Schüler, eine Entwicklung multipler Denkmodi und ein Gewinn tieferen konzeptuellen Verständnisses in der lA erfolgreich vermittelt werden können, sondern geben auch Einblicke in ein mögliches theoretisches Modell, mit dessen Hilfe sich diese Prozesse weiter untersuchen lassen. Weiterhin werden die interaktiven Lehr-Lernmaterialien für die weitere Verwendung im Rahmen von Lehre und Forschung zur Verfügung gestellt. Es öffnen sich neue Forschungsfragen hinsichtlich lokalen Axiomatisierens in der lA der gymnasialen Oberstufe, welches auf einer Integration geometrischer, algebraischer und axiomatischer Denkmodi, unterstützt durch DGS, basieren könnte. / A common perception among researchers in mathematics education is that the transition between secondary- and tertiary level of mathematics may be problematic for the students. In particular, the exact and abstract nature of the theory of Linear algebra versus its arithmetic-geometric presentation in school appears to be difficult for the novice students. The application of properties for defining concepts at university in contrast to their usage for describing concepts in school points out a possible occurrence of obstacles for learning and discrepancies in procedural and conceptual understanding. The aim of this study is to examine how could upper-high school students develop a conceptual understanding based on concept definition and concept image in connection to multiple modes of description and thinking about concepts such as bi-linearity exemplified by the dot product of vectors and multi-linearity exemplified by determinants. In order to achieve this, I have created a specific teaching/ learning sequence in a dynamic geometry environment (DGE), then implemented it and evaluated it in a high school in Berlin, following a complete cycle of design-based research and conducting a multiple-level data analysis. The findings of the study show not only that widening students' concept images, developing multiple modes of thinking and gaining deeper conceptual understanding can successfully be mediated by dynamic geometries, but also give insights into an eventual theoretical model of how can they be further examined. Moreover, the study promotes authorized open-source interactive teaching/ learning materials for further sustainable practice and research. It opens new research questions about revisiting axiomatic approaches on local levels in upper high-school Linear algebra which may base on the integration of all three modes of description and thinking geometric, algebraic and abstract possibly facilitated by DGE. / Честа перцепција кај многумина истражувачи во областа на математичкото образование е дека транзицијата помеѓу средното и високото образование по математика може да биде проблематична за студентите. Егзакноста и апстрактноста на теоријата по Линеарна алгебра наспроти нејзината аритметичко-геометриска презентација во средното гимназиско образование се покажува како особено тешка за студентите. Примена на својствата на математичките поими за нивно дефинирање на универзитетско ниво наспроти нивното употреба за опишување на претходно дефинирани поими на училишно ниво, укажува на можна појава на тешкотии при нивното изучување и несовпаѓање на процедуралното и концептуалното разбирање на истите. Целта на оваа студија е да истражи како средношколците би можеле да развијат концептуално разбирање на поимите врз основа на концепт дефиниција и концепт слика во врска со мулти-моди на мислење, конкретно за поими како билинеарност, пр. скаларен производ на вектори, и мултилинеарност, пр. детерминанти. За да ја постигнам оваа цел, креирав наставна содржина поддржана од еден динамичен геометриски систем (ДГС) и следејќи целосен циклус на т.н. design-based research и спрoведувајќи мулти-анализа на податоци, истата ја имплементирав и евалуирав во едно средно училиште во Берлин. Резултатите од студијата укажуваат не само на фактот дека проширувањето на концепт сликите на учениците, развојот на мулти-моди на мислење и стекнувањето на длабоко концептуално разбирање на поимите можат да бидат успешно посредувани од ДГС туку овозможија и увид во еден теоретски модел за тоа коко тие можат понатаму да се истражуваат. Уште повеќе, студијата промовира авторизирани open-source интерактивни материјали за предавање и учење на содржините кои може да служат за понатамошни одржливи истражувања и развој. Студијата отвора нови истражувачки прашања за средношколската Линеарна алгебра која може да се базира на интеграција на сите три моди на мислење, геометриски, алгебарски и апстрактен, поддржан од ДГС.