This paper investigates the theoretical meaning of plausibility in mathematics from a teacher’s perspective. The study applies a phenomenographic research approach and uses empirical content analysis. The theory used comes from the writings on plausibility assessment from McIntosh (2008). Furthermore, Karlsson & Kilborn’s (2015) and Kilpatrick, Swafford & Findell’s (2001) writings on mathematical modeling has been applied. The data gathered in this study comes from interviewing 6 teachers. The results show that teachers in the study do not work explicitly but rather work implicitly with assessment in plausibility as a complement to their general teaching of mathematics. The results further show that the teachers have the mathematical knowledge and competence to educate in plausibility but that they lack the theoretical- and didactic knowledge to apply it in their teaching. There is also very little research, if any, in this area which is a concern for the development of teaching plausibility assessment.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:sh-39647 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Åberg, Dagny |
| Publisher | Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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