• School Mathematics
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.39-56
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• 2014

This study analysed 8 gifted students' behavior of using calculator in the 5th grade based on qualitative data of direct proportion class with the utilization of the calculator. Pretesting with questionnaire had been made to verify students' developmental stages of proportional reasoning, and the stage was categorized according to Baxter & Junker (2001). The learning contents were made of worksheet, and the researcher held the class for 60 minutes. For analysing data, record of class was gathered to make a transcript and analysed it with Guin & Trouche' behavior of using calculator type. According to the result, each type of the behavior affected students' development of proportional reasoning differently.