EVENTS

Bressoud
Chartier
Chinn
Clark, D., et al.
Clark, L.
Covington
Daniels/Armendariz
George
Hodge
Insall
Landry
Laursen/Douglas
Mahavier
McKee, et al.
Moore/Rossa
Nordstrom
Parker
Renesse/Hotchkiss
Renesse
Roe
Saturday AM
Selden, et al.
Shubin
Siegel
Socha, et al.
Sommers
Spresser
Yoshinobu, et al.

Annie Selden                                   
New Mexico State University

John Selden                                   
New Mexico State University

Kerry McKee                                   
New Mexico State University

Observations on the Proving Process

In designing and studying a Modified Moore Method course, we are learning about the relationship between affect, behavioral schemas, and the proving process.  Behavioral schemas are enduring mental structures linking situations to actions; they appear to drive many mental actions in the proving process.
The formal-rhetorical part of a proof is the part that can be written by examining the logical structure of the statement and unpacking associated definitions.  Examples include writing the first and last lines and unpacking the last line.  Writing the formal-rhetorical part can expose "the real problem" to be solved – what we call the problem-centered part.