Keith Weber
Rutgers University
167 Papers
742 Citations
Keith Weber is an academic researcher from Rutgers University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mathematical proof & Mathematical practice. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 159 publications. Previous affiliations of Keith Weber include Chapman University & West Virginia University.
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Papers
Student difficulty in constructing proofs: The need for strategic knowledge
TL;DR: This article showed that students often are aware of and able to apply the facts required to prove a statement but still fail to prove it, and that they thus fail to construct a proof because they could not use the syntactic knowledge that they had.
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Semantic and Syntactic Proof Productions
Keith Weber,Lara Alcock +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors distinguish between two ways that an individual can construct a formal proof: syntactic and semantic proof production, where the prover draws inferences by manipulating symbolic formulae in a logically permissible way.
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Traditional instruction in advanced mathematics courses: a case study of one professor’s lectures and proofs in an introductory real analysis course
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of one professor using proof-theorem-proof instruction in an introductory real analysis course is presented. And the authors argue that these actions are the result of the professor's beliefs about mathematics, students, and education, as well as his knowledge of the material being covered.
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Teaching and learning proof across the grades : a K-16 perspective
Keith Weber,Lara Alcock +1 more
- 01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: Theoretical Considerations on the Teaching and Learning of Proof and Implications for Understanding the Place of Reasoning And Proof in School Mathematics.
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How Mathematicians Determine if an Argument Is a Valid Proof
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the mathematical practice of proof validation, i.e., the act of determining whether an argument constitutes a valid proof, and find that mathematicians use several different modes of reasoning in proof validation.
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