Academic Articles & Research Papers

Mathematical competencies revisited

Factors Affecting Difficulties in Learning Mathematics by Mathematics Learners

This article explores the adversities faced by public school students in learning mathematics in their leaning context. The main purpose of this study was to explore the causes of learning difficulties in mathematics. The design of the stud...

Mathematical creativity and school mathematics: Indicators of mathematical creativity in middle school students

As students progress through the educational system their interest in mathematics diminishes. Yet there is an ever increasing need within the workforce for individuals who possess talent in mathematics. The literature suggests that mathemat...

Mathematics achievement and self-efficacy: Relations with motivation for mathematics

A Fractional-Order Complexity Framework for Misinformation Propagation With Fact-Checking Saturation and Social Vulnerability Dynamics

Misinformation spreads through communities in ways that resemble infectious diseases, but existing mathematical models often miss three real-world complexities: People remember past information (memory effects), some folks are more easily f...

The Emergence of Mathematical Meaning

Contents: Preface. P. Cobb, H. Bauersfeld, Introduction: The Coordination of Psychological and Sociological Perspectives in Mathematics Education. P. Cobb, E. Yackel, T. Wood, The Teaching Experiment Classroom. P. Cobb, Mathematical Learnin...

A History of Mathematics: An Introduction

Part I. Ancient Mathematics 1. Egypt and Mesopotamia 1.1 Egypt 1.2 Mesopotamia 2. The Beginnings of Mathematics in Greece 2.1 The Earliest Greek Mathematics 2.2 The Time of Plato 2.3 Aristotle 3. Euclid 3.1 Introduction to the Elements 3.2 ...

Mathematics anxiety and mathematics achievement

With an Eye on the Mathematical Horizon: Dilemmas of Teaching Elementary School Mathematics

Ideas like "understanding," "authenticity," and "community" are central in current debates about curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Many believe that teaching and learning would be improved if classrooms were organized to engage stude...

A Novel Energy-Efficient Reception Method Based on Random Network Coding in Cooperative Wireless Sensor Networks

This paper presents an opportunistic reception (OR) algorithm for energy-efficient transmission in cooperative wireless sensor networks (WSNs), where the characteristics of random linear network coding and the energy consumption property of...

Advancing Children's Mathematical Thinking in Everyday Mathematics Classrooms

Judith L. Fraivillig, Lauren A. Murphy, Karen C. Fuson, Advancing Children's Mathematical Thinking in Everyday Mathematics Classrooms, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Mar., 1999), pp. 148-170...

Mathematics-for-Teaching: an Ongoing Investigation of the Mathematics that Teachers (Need to) Know

Mathematical discussion and mathematical understanding

A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship between Anxiety toward Mathematics and Achievement in Mathematics

In this meta-analysis I examined 26 studies on the relationship between anxiety toward mathematics and achievement in mathematics among elementary and secondary students. The common population correlation for the relationship is significant...

Linking Preservice Teachers' Mathematics Self‐Efficacy and Mathematics Teaching Efficacy to Their Mathematical Performance

This study examined preservice teachers' mathematics self‐efficacy and mathematics teaching efficacy and compared them to their mathematical performance. Participants included 89 early childhood preservice teachers at a Midwestern universit...

Theories of Mathematical Learning

Contents: Preface. Part I: P. Cobb, Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives on Mathematics Learning. P. Cobb, B. Jaworski, N. Presmeg, Emergent and Sociocultural Views of Mathematical Activity. J. Voigt, Negotiation of Mathematical Me...

Skills underlying mathematics: The role of executive function in the development of mathematics proficiency

The successful learning and performance of mathematics relies on a range of individual, social and educational factors. Recent research suggests that executive function skills, which include monitoring and manipulating information in mind (...

The Role of Mathematical Definitions in Mathematics and in Undergraduate Mathematics Courses

Introduction One of the earliest subjects of undergraduate mathematics education research was students' difficulties in writing formal mathematical proofs. Some research focused on the heuristics involved in proof-writing, but early attempt...

Surcando caminos de interculturalidad sustentados en la Etnomatemática

This paper narrates facts and consequences of a course focused on Interculturality and Ethnomathematics developed in a Venezuelan Pedagogical University. The reflection is centered on Ethnomathematics and the development of "curricular ethn...

University mathematics students' conceptions of mathematics

A Conceptions of Mathematics Questionnaire was developed, designed to provide an indicator of the nature of students' conceptions of the subject matter they were studying. The scales of the questionnaire were based upon a set of conceptions...