Welcome to the website of the research group of Prof. Dr. Elke Söbbeke
Söbbeke Research Group
Welcome to the website of the research group of Prof. Dr. Elke Söbbeke
Visual aids should be used in primary school mathematics lessons to support children in exploring and understanding mathematical structures and relationships. In addition to the function of a methodical calculation aid, visual aids also have the function of an epistemological tool. The ability to use mathematical representations with a "structural view" as exploratory tools does not develop spontaneously in the classroom, but can only be developed interactively between the children and the teacher in a special teaching culture.
The research interest of the working group lies in the challenging requirement for primary school children to use mathematical representations in a range between concretely tangible and abstractly structure-oriented interpretations. In various research projects, the epistemological conditions of learning mathematics with visual aids are examined in an interplay of empirical research and theory development.
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