Search
Skip to Search Results- 1Banting, Nathaniel, J. A.
- 1Beisiegel, Mary deRaeve
- 1Dias Corrêa, Priscila M
- 1Harle, Joanne
- 1Karuku, Simon Muriithi
- 1Mayar, Ratera
-
Authoring Themselves as Mathematical Learners: Students' Experiences of Learning to Learn High School Mathematics
DownloadSpring 2014
High school mathematics students often complete homework and study for unit tests without support to consider how these actions could contribute to their mathematical learning. However, students can, through the process of learning to learn mathematics, to bring into view how they learn...
-
Fall 2013
A qualitative study, framed within a hermeneutic phenomenological stance, was undertaken to explore and describe the essence of the meaning of help in mathematics from the perspective of high school students. Participants were drawn from seven high schools located in the eastern and mid-eastern...
-
Carving Curriculum out of Chaos: Exploring Teacher Interventions and the Patterning of Small Groups in Mathematics Class
DownloadSpring 2017
Small group work is becoming an increasingly popular structure for promoting communication, sense-making, and reasoning in the mathematics class. This increased sense of student autonomy must co-exist with the curriculum, the expectation to provide opportunities for students to master certain...
-
DEVELOPING MATHEMATICS FOR TEACHING THROUGH CONCEPT STUDY: A CASE OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS IN TANZANIA
DownloadSpring 2019
This descriptive qualitative case study investigates the question “In what ways does developing mathematics for teaching through concept study contribute to the professional knowledge and skills of pre-service teachers?” The concept studies were conducted in a classroom driven by five conditions:...
-
Spring 2013
This study explores Grade Seven students’ experiences of doubt and certainty in mathematics. During nine months of (bi-monthly) sessions, students responded to several mathematical prompts; their interactions with each other and with the teacher- researcher were video-taped, transcribed, and...
-
Lesson Study: Mathematics teachers become the professionals in their professional development
DownloadFall 2009
This research begins with an argument for the implementation of a professional development model that would empower mathematics teachers to make changes to their mathematical teaching practices. As this argument evolves so does the need for further investigation into what key components are...
-
Spring 2010
In this dissertation, I propose that network theory offers a useful frame for informing mathematics education. Mathematical understanding, like the discipline of formal mathematics within which it is subsumed, possesses attributes characteristic of complex systems. As the techniques of network...
-
Observing High-school Students' Mathematical Understanding and Mathematical Proficiency in the Context of Mathematical Modeling
DownloadSpring 2017
The use of mathematical modeling in education has been investigated for the last five decades. The benefits of bringing modeling into mathematics classes are well known and well accepted, and modeling is becoming more common and more appealing to mathematics teachers. However, there are still...