9 Aug
2025
9 Aug
'25
2:05 p.m.
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webpage:
https://resources.illc.uva.nl/Commission-on-Logic-Education/news-events/
zoom link:
URL: https://cmi-ac-in.zoom.us/j/83042980483?pwd=8qXaJ6WqzLVEROZD1HrZ3b6aFhwyao.1
Meeting ID: 830 4298 0483
Passcode: 546866
WHAT ASPECTS OF STUDENT LANGUAGE USE DO NOT COMPORT WITH MATHEMATICAL LOGIC?
Speaker: PAUL CHRISTIAN DAWKINS,
Professor Of Mathematics,
Texas State University
Date: August 11, 2025
Time: 0800 HOURS (DALLAS)
1000 (Brasilia) 1500 (Paris)
1830 (Bangalore) 2100 (Beijing)
Abstract:
Based on over a decade of experiments working to support students in reflecting on their
use of mathematical language to help them reinvent some basic logical structures, I have
gained some insights about university students’ untrained interpretations of mathematical
language.
Combining these empirical findings with insights from psychology, pragmatics, and
linguistics, I have come to appreciate the coherence and rationality of students’ language
use even when it proves incompatible with logical structure.
In this talk, I will share some stories of student thinking that have given me some
helpful insight into how their language use differed in important ways from mathematical
language use. Hopefully, these contrasts will help instructors and researchers understand
the challenges that logic instruction must overcome to support students in formalizing and
systematizing their reasoning about mathematical language.
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