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RESEARCH PAPER
Doing mathematics with music – Creating epistemic environments
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Celorico de Basto School Group, PORTUGAL
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UTAD, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, PORTUGAL
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CIDTFF–Research Center in Didactics and Technology in Training of Trainers, Aveiro, PORTUGAL
Publication date: 2022-04-20
EURASIA J. Math., Sci Tech. Ed 2022;18(5):em2111
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
It is rare to turn music into a mathematical object in an educational context, although the benefit
of the articulation between mathematics and music is recognized. The present study focuses on
the epistemic environment created for students to do maths with music. The methodological
approach had two components: an exploratory one to study the relationships between the
epistemic environment experienced by students and the epistemic levels at which they do
mathematics, and a quasi-experimental one to assess the effectiveness of intervention in student
learning. Three groups took part in the study. The “doing maths with music” approach is more
effective than conventional ones whether, or not, students have in-depth musical knowledge. On
the other hand, educational artefacts used by students allowed them to deal with music at various
epistemic levels, with relevant relationships between the quality of students’ epistemic activity and
the profile of epistemic levels.
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