Using Toulmin Model to Analyze Undergraduate Students' Combinatorial Argumentation

EasyChair Preprint 10609

Abstract

Combinatorial argumentation is a set of proofs from the arrangements of certain objects in the set supported by claims, data, warrants, and backing so that it can be proven true. This research aims to analyze the structure of combinatorial argumentation of undergraduate students with the Toulmin model. This research involved 93 undergraduates of Mathematics Education Study Program in the 2nd semester. The undergraduate students' combinatorial argumentation on proofs related to Binomial Theorem was analyzed using the Toulmin model. Results show that algebraic argumentation is more favorite among undergraduate students than combinatorial argumentation, and most students have difficulty in providing claims, data, warrants, and backing in combinatorial argumentation.

Keyphrases: Combinatorial Argumentation, Toulmin model, proof

@booklet{EasyChair:10609,
  author    = {Zahra Alhumairah Basa and Yusuf Hartono and Nyimas Aisyah and Cecil Hiltrimartin},
  title     = {Using Toulmin Model to Analyze Undergraduate Students' Combinatorial Argumentation},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 10609},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2023}}