First-Grade Students' Uses of Tables as They Explore Functional Relations

• In Event: 73.058 - Students' Mathematical Thinking: Grades K-5

Abstract

We present first graders’ uses of function tables as they explored relationships between quantities, drawing from a design study investigating functional thinking. Findings suggest children used tables as organizational tools and they looked not just at but also through tables at functional relationships. We take this as evidence that children were using tables as tools to think about functions.

Authors

• Barbara M. Brizuela, Tufts University

• Maria Blanton, TERC

• Angela Gardiner, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth

• Katherine Sawrey, Tufts University

• Ashley Newman-Owens, Tufts University