Heuristic trees as a digital tool to foster compression and decompression in problem-solving

R Bos, T van den Bogaart - Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education, 2022 - Springer
This design-based study addresses the issue of how to digitally support students' problem-
solving by providing heuristics, in the absence of the teacher. The problem is that, so far …

Teachers' design of heuristic trees

R Bos, T van den Bogaart - Hiroshima Journal of Mathematics …, 2022 - jstage.jst.go.jp
In scaling up the use of heuristic trees to facilitate students' mathematical problem solving,
we developed a design course and design protocol for heuristic trees. However, designing …

Supporting reasoning skills with heuristic trees in pre-university mathematics

J Stokkermans - 2024 - studenttheses.uu.nl
This research investigates the design of heuristic trees in supporting pre-university students
in mathematical reasoning, as well as finding and formulating proofs within Dutch secondary …

[PDF][PDF] Supporting students to compress mathematical knowledge while problem solving

R Bos, R Lemmink - International Conference on …, 2021 - research-portal.uu.nl
Compression of mathematical objects, procedures and statements could play a major role in
successful problem solving. We report on a study in which we aim to design an instrument …

Heuristic trees as an instrument to support autonomous problem solving

R Bos - Third Utrecht Scholarship of Teaching & Learning …, 2021 - uu.nl
There is a broad consensus on the importance of problem solving both as a learning goal
and as a teaching method. Problem solving is an essential academic skill. However …