DISCOVERING A RULE AND ITS MATHEMATICAL JUSTIFICATION IN MODELING ACTIVITIES USING SPREADSHEET
Hong-chan Son, Hee-Chan Lew · 2006
The present study has its objective in describing how students discover rules underlying a certain phenomenon at question and the process in which they mathematically justify such discovery by way of utilizing tables and graphs in use of the cell reference function of spreadsheet when a problem is not easily solved through simple symbol manipulation in a paper and pencil environment. INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Mathematical modeling activities carry significance in that they offer students the experience of discovering and constructing their own mathematical knowledge, and in that they help students realize the applicability and necessity of mathematics. Generally modeling activities start from real-life situations, and therefore naturally