Omega Position - a specific phase of perceiving the notion of infinity

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F44555601%3A13440%2F15%3A43887311" target="_blank" >RIV/44555601:13440/15:43887311 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Omega Position - a specific phase of perceiving the notion of infinity

Original language description

This article describes a specific phase of the ontogenetic development of understanding infinity, called the omega position, the identification of which is one of the results of extensive research focusing on the perception of the infinity notion. Some 1432 Czech pupils and students between the ages of 8 to 20, participated in the first two sections of this research between the years 2008 and 2011. This article describes in more detail, the final qualitative part of the research that focuses on interviews with university students with the aim of diagnosing this phase in their perception of infinity in various contexts. It also describes some possibilities for the identification of the omega position and its consequences for a successful study of thosenotions and ideas of mathematics, which are associated with infinity. Further, the article puts the omega position into context with potential or actual infinity, specifies individual developmental phases by means of the notion horizon an

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AM - Pedagogy and education

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA406%2F07%2F1026" target="_blank" >GA406/07/1026: Obstacles in Phylogenetic and Ontogenetic Development of the Infinity Concept</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Scientia in educatione

ISSN

1804-7106

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

51-73

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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