Exploration of patterns in different contexts Anne Birgitte Fyhn, Lisbet Hansen To cite this version: Anne Birgitte Fyhn, Lisbet Hansen. Exploration of patterns in different contexts. Eleventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, Utrecht University, Feb 2019, Utrecht, Netherlands. hal-02435305 HAL Id: hal-02435305 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02435305 Submitted on 10 Jan 2020 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Exploration of patterns in different contexts Anne Birgitte Fyhn1 and Lisbet Hansen2 1UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Department of Education, Tromsø, Norway;
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[email protected] As part of a research project focusing on investigative approaches to mathematics, a teacher in a Sámi school created an interdisciplinary teaching unit about patterns: skiing- mathematics- Sámi language. The 1–2 grade students painted their own patterns and they created patterns using their skis and poles in the snow. The analysis shows that the students developed their rules for what constitutes a pattern when the context changed from classroom work to skis on snow.