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29.027 - Designing Digital Environments to Support Mathematical and Scientific Reasoning: Theoretical and Disciplinary Perspectives

Fri, April 28, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 208

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This session brings together four empirical projects that examine how to design for mathematical and scientific reasoning and problem solving, leveraging the affordances of digital environments. Using a methodology called Design Based Research, the papers highlight the influence of theoretical frameworks on both initial designs and revisions that were made, drawing, in different ways, on theories of learning that highlight the role of interaction, context, and design to support learning of core disciplinary ideas. By looking across these four different projects, we seek to both point to commonalities across designs and the manner in which they draw upon theory, as well as tensions in cycles of design and research intended to support problem solving within math and science.

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