Child Development and Pedagogy · Pedagogy
A middle school mathematics teacher asks students to construct a rectangle with length 7 cm and breadth 4 cm. As the students completed the task, he further instructs them: (i) Increase the length and breadth by 2 cm each and draw to see what figure you get. (ii) Decrease the length and breadth by 2 cm each and draw to see what figure you get. (iii) Increase the length by 1 cm and decrease the breadth by 1 cm. Can you predict the type of figure without drawing? Which principle of Zoltan Dienes' theory of mathematics learning is being used in this activity?
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- 1Dynamic Principle
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- 3Perceptual Variability Principle
- 4Constructivity Principle
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Mathematical Variability Principle
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