[ALI] Reminder: Logic Education Webinar on August 11 at 6-30 pm
Association for Logic in India
webpage: https://resources.illc.uva.nl/Commission-on-Logic-Education/news-events/
zoom link:
URL: https://cmi-ac-in.zoom.us/j/83042980483?pwd=8qXaJ6WqzLVEROZD1HrZ3b6aFhwyao.1
Meeting ID: 830 4298 0483
Passcode: 546866
What aspects of student language use do not comport with mathematical logic?
Speaker: Paul Christian Dawkins,
Professor of Mathematics,
Texas State University
Date: August 11, 2025
Time: 0800 hours (Dallas)
1000 (Brasilia) 1500 (Paris)
1830 (Bangalore) 2100 (Beijing)
Abstract:
Based on over a decade of experiments working to support students in reflecting on their use of mathematical language to help them reinvent some basic logical structures, I have gained some insights about university students’ untrained interpretations of mathematical language.
Combining these empirical findings with insights from psychology, pragmatics, and linguistics, I have come to appreciate the coherence and rationality of students’ language use even when it proves incompatible with logical structure.
In this talk, I will share some stories of student thinking that have given me some helpful insight into how their language use differed in important ways from mathematical language use. Hopefully, these contrasts will help instructors and researchers understand the challenges that logic instruction must overcome to support students in formalizing and systematizing their reasoning about mathematical language.