Similarity of form and substance: modeling material kind

By Leona Schauble, Margie Pligge, D. Strom, R. Lehrer. 2001

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Structuring Error and Experimental Variation as Distribution in the Fourth Grade (2003, result): “…that reasoning about error variation may provide a reasonable grounding for instruction (Konold & Pollatsek, 2002; Porter, 1986; Stigler, 1986), and from our previous research with fifth-grade students who were modeling density of various substances (Lehrer & Schauble, 2000; Lehrer et al., 2001).”
FOCUS ARTICLE: Implications of Research on Children's Learning for Standards and Assessment: A Proposed Learning Progression for Matter and the Atomic-Molecular Theory (2006, background): “That is, decide whether A PROPOSED LEARNING PROGRESSION 51 10Of course, as shown in the research of Lehrer et al. (2001), building powerful mathematical ideas about ratio through investigations of scaling and the similarity of form can also aid in the construction of a concept of density.”