Understanding How the Concept of Fractions Develops: a Vygotskian Perspective
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Vygotsky posed a variety of meaningful ideas for education in his short life. This paper focuses on everyday concepts and mathematical concepts or scientific concepts from his theory, reorganizing these ideas according to a new idea of sublated concepts. Using a series of interviews from a third grade fraction class in Japan, the paper discusses how everyday and mathematical concepts arise out of discussions among children and a teacher, and how they develop into sublated concepts.
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