Kitchen gardens: contexts for developing proportional reasoning

Annette Hilton; Geoff Hilton; Shelley Dole; Merrilyn Goos; Mia O'Brien

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Kitchen gardens: contexts for developing proportional reasoning

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Kitchen gardens: contexts for developing proportional reasoning

Annette Hilton, Geoff Hilton, Shelley Dole, Merrilyn Goos and Mia O'Brien

Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, Vol.18(2), pp.21-25

2013

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Curriculum and Pedagogy

mathematics

kitchen gardens

proportional reasoning

It is great to see how the sharing of ideas sparks new ideas. In 2011 Lyon and Bragg wrote an APMC article on the mathematics of kitchen gardens. In this article the authors show how the kitchen garden may be used as a starting point for proportional reasoning. The authors highlight different types of proportion problems and how the authentic context of a kitchen garden may be used to spark interest in reasoning.

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Title: Kitchen gardens: contexts for developing proportional reasoning
Authors: Annette Hilton (Author) - Aarhus University
Geoff Hilton (Author) - Aarhus University
Shelley Dole (Author) - Aarhus University
Merrilyn Goos (Author) - Aarhus University
Mia O'Brien (Author) - Aarhus University
Publication details: Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, Vol.18(2), pp.21-25
Publisher: Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers Inc.
Date published: 2013
ISSN: 1326-0286
Organisation Unit: School of Education - Legacy; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449603902621
Output Type: Journal article

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