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Potential, actual and practical variations for teaching functions: cases study in China and France

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November 4, 2020
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Zhang, L. (2020). Potential, actual and practical variations for teaching functions: cases study in China and France. Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science, 18(3), 157-166. https://doi.org/10.5485/TMCS.2020.0489
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This contribution is based on two major hypotheses: task design is the core of teachers’ work, and variation is the core of task design. Taking into account variation in task design has a profound theoretical foundation in China and France. Developing my PhD with two co-supervisors, in China and France, I wish to seize this opportunity for constructing an analytic model of “teaching mathematics through variation” making profit of this theoretical diversity. This model distinguishes between potential variation and practical variation and is based on the process of transforming potential variation into actual variation, and of using practical variation for rethinking potential variation. The design of this model is based both on theoretical networking, and on case studies, in France and China. In this contribution, we will focus on a critical aspect in the two cases, from potential to practical variation.

Subject Classification: 97-06