Department of Mathematics
Title : Informal Arguments in University Mathematics
| Speaker: Juan Pablo Mejia-Ramos Affiliation: Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey Time: 1pm Monday, 21 January, 2013 Location: 303-B05, Science Building |
Abstract
| This is the continuation of a talk I gave in November as part of the Mathematics and Statistics Education Seminar series. In this second talk I will focus on a series of studies that colleagues and I have conducted on the evaluation and construction of informal mathematical arguments by undergraduate students and research-active mathematicians. In particular, I will discuss the persuasiveness of authoritative and visual arguments in mathematics, and the employment of specific examples in the construction of arguments supporting general mathematical claims. I will also illustrate the ways in which we have used Toulmins argumentation layout (The Uses of Argument, 1958) to analyze these types of arguments in mathematics. |
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Programmes and Centres
- New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (NZIMA)
- Community for Understanding and Learning in the Mathematical Sciences (CULMS)
- Centre for Mathematical Social Science (CMSS)
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Engineering Science
- Department of Physics
- Department of Statistics
- Auckland Bioengineering Institute
