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SUMMARY:Maths education seminar: Lara Alcock on Reasoning about Mathemati
 cal ‘If-Then’ Statements
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof Lara Alcock (Loughborough University)\nTitle: R
 easoning about Mathematical ‘If-Then’ Statements\nAbstract: Mathematics 
 routinely uses ‘if-then’ statements to express theorems and conjectures\
 , stipulating that a proposition ‘if A then B’ is false only if A is tru
 e and B is false.  Everyday language routinely uses ‘if-then’ statements
  too\, but there interpretations depend upon content and context.  What 
 does this mean for mathematics students?  How do they interpret and reas
 on with the statements they meet in undergraduate mathematics?  This tal
 k will shed light on this question\, presenting empirical data from stud
 ies involving mathematical versions of conditional inference tasks used 
 in cognitive psychology.  It will also provide attendees with an opportu
 nity to reflect upon whether professional mathematicians’ reasoning is a
 lways as ‘logical’ as we might think\, and on how logical reasoning deve
 lops with mathematical expertise.
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:G.108\, Alan Turing Building\, Manchester
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