Jorryt van Bommel

The role of and connection between systematization and representation when young children work on a combinatorial task

ABSTRACT This article is about the systematization and representation young children spontaneously use when they are working on a combinatorial task. In this article, documentations from 123 children working on the same task are analysed. The question asked is if there are any connections between the systematizations and representations used in the documentations and how the children solve the task. The results indicate that there are some connections between systematization and representations and that both prepossess children’s solutions. In this paper, we provide some possible reasons; however, we also state that more studies are needed to give deeper insights on these issues.

Enhancing young children’s understanding of a combinatorial task by using a duo of digital and physical artefacts

In mathematics education, digital tools have been used to enhance young children’s understanding of specific subject matter. In such implementations, the digital tool can replace, amplify or transf...

Professional Learning Communities in a Web 2.0 World: Rethinking the Conditions for Professional Development

The new technologies, in particular social media in Web 2.0, enable rapid change in people’s behaviour, which needs to be considered in research on teacher empowerment and teacher professional deve ...