What We’re Learning About Volume
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What We’re Learning �About Volume"
David Carraher, TERC"The Inquiry Project"
Analúcia Schliemann, Carol Smith, Chunhua Liu, Jodi Asbell-Clarke, Judah Schwartz, Nick Haddad, Paul
Wagonner, Roger Tobin, Sally Crissman, Sue Doubler,"Teachers from Malden, Roxbury, & Lexington "
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1-Volume Competes With Other Magnitudes "
• Footprint [surface area required]"
• Space “needed” or “used” [see film]"
• Amount of stuff [differentiate from mass]"
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“Do these have the same volume?”"
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“No...because one takes up more space than the
other...One’s like more open...it’s stretched out.”"
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“I agree...If you put them both into a ball, they’d be
about the same"
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“[One] has a much bigger space...the other one...rolled up in a ball...doesn’t look like
it has as much space.”"
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Teacher: “So this one is yours. How many blocks did you start with when you built the structure?”�Student: 8�Teacher: “How about the other structure?”�Other student: 8�
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2-Measurement ≠ Conceptualization"
• width"
• perimeter or half-perimeter"
• area of one or more sides (of a block)"
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3-The Concept of Volume"• Verbal definitions are ‘useless’ [“Amount of space”]"
• Ostensive definitions are required"
• Volume has multiple meanings even among scientists: "
• litre of sand"
• volume of a bottle of Coca-cola"
• bulk volume, particulate volume, displaced volume..."
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4-Operations and Relations"
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The Inquiry Project�TERC, Tufts University�
http://inquiryproject.terc.edu�
NSF #0628245"