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Record W132216757 · doi:10.5951/mtms.6.6.0343

Algebraic Thinking through Origami

2001· article· en· W132216757 on OpenAlexaff
William Higginson, Lynda Colgan

Bibliographic record

VenueMathematics Teaching in the Middle School · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMathematics Education and Teaching Techniques
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMathematics educationTask (project management)CurriculumBig IdeaComputer scienceMathematics curriculumReform mathematicsTeaching methodMathematicsConnected MathematicsPedagogySociologyTechnology integrationEngineeringSocial science

Abstract

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Since the publication of the original Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM 1989), we have come to embrace the importance of the “big ideas” of mathematics—the complex web of ideas that goes beyond content and includes reasoning, problem solving, and communication using multi-ple representations. Big ideas in classrooms give students opportunities to see mathematics as an integrated whole and to make thoughtful connections among related concepts and applications to other domains. This article illustrates how mathematical insights can arise naturally from a rich learning task when the teacher facilitates a stimulating and responsive dialogue.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.045

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.006
Scholarly communication0.0040.006
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.089
GPT teacher head0.358
Teacher spread0.269 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2001
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