Beliefs on proof in mathematics : a survey of future elementary school teachers in Switzerland
Formation et professionnalisation
- Da Ronch, Mickael ORCID University of Teacher Education Valais
- Mili, Ismaïl Unversity of Friboug
- Ouvrier-Buffet, Cécile ORCID
- 2025
Submitted to:
- Soumis à : Sixth conference of the internation network for didactic Research in University Mathematics (INDRUM 2026). - 2025
English
This paper analyzes the conceptions of proof among first-year bachelor's students, future primary school teachers, in the context of current thinking in proof research. Using a questionnaire tailored to this audience, we study the functions of proof that
they recognize, as well as their criteria for evaluating the rigor and validity of different types of proof. The results show a clear gap between their ability to identify intellectual, deductive proof as rigorous and the empirical or perceptual approaches relevant to pragmatic proof that they spontaneously mobilize. Explanatory and verification functions dominate, while more social dimensions appear only marginally. These results highlight the need to reinforce, in initial training, the active and diversified
appropriation of the activity of proof.
they recognize, as well as their criteria for evaluating the rigor and validity of different types of proof. The results show a clear gap between their ability to identify intellectual, deductive proof as rigorous and the empirical or perceptual approaches relevant to pragmatic proof that they spontaneously mobilize. Explanatory and verification functions dominate, while more social dimensions appear only marginally. These results highlight the need to reinforce, in initial training, the active and diversified
appropriation of the activity of proof.
- Conférence
- Sixth conference of the internation network for didactic Research in University Mathematics (INDRUM 2026)
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Medicine, Technology, Engineering
- License
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CC BY
- Persistent URL
- https://fredi.hepvs.ch/hepvs/documents/333676
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