Translating between and within representations: mathematics as lived experiences and interactions

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Chigeza, Philemon

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Students develop understanding of mathematics when they translate between and within different mathematical representations. This paper explores a student-generated story and content descriptors from the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics to highlight how primary school students can represent mathematical concepts through exploring the links between everyday physical objects, pictures, oral/written language, models and mathematical symbols. This active experience enhances the students' capacity to represent mathematical concepts and ideas, symbolize these, and eventually learn to abstract and generalize.

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MERGA 36: 36th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia

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Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia

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Adelaide, SA, Australia

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