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Paul Dowling (1998)
Until the 1960s, maths was studied as an academic subject in a desire to have more mathematicians. The current trend, however, has moved away from viewing maths as a purely intellectual endeavour and towards developing a more mathematically...
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Eric L. Mann • journal for the education of the gifted
(2006)
For the gifted mathematics student, early mastery of concepts and skills in the mathematics curriculum usually results in getting more of the same work and/or moving through the curriculum at a faster pace. Testing, grades, and pacing overs...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4219/jeg-2006-264
• Mathematics Teacher Learning and Teaching PK-12
(1979)
Organized groups of teachers of mathematics or of individuals preparing to become teachers of mathematics may petition the NCTM Board of Directors to become affiliated with the Council. Affiliated Groups are entitled to send a delegate to t...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5951/mt.72.8.0637
Tommy Dreyfus • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(1990)
This chapter presents the principal currents and results in recent cognitive research on advanced mathematical thinking processes. The ambiguity in the phrase advanced mathematical thinking processes is intentional: The word advanced can an...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139013499.008
• Routledge eBooks
(2012)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203053140
George W. Cobb, David S. Moore • American Mathematical Monthly
(1997)
How does statistical thinking differ from mathematical thinking? What is the role of mathematics in statistics? If you purge statistics of its mathematical content, what intellectual substance remains?In what follows, we offer some answers ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.1997.11990723
Deborah Loewenberg Ball • The Elementary School Journal
(1993)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/461730
Brent Davis, Elaine Simmt • Educational Studies in Mathematics
(2006)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-006-2372-4
Alan Bates, Nancy I. Latham, Jinah Kim • School Science and Mathematics
(2011)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1949-8594.2011.00095.x
Carolyn A. Maher, Elizabeth B. Uptegrove, LOUISE CHERRY WILKINSON • ICME-13 monographs
(2019)
The Journal of Mathematical Behavior solicits original research on the learning and teaching of mathematics, from young children to adults, with a focus on how mathematical ideas are developed in learners under certain conditions that suppo...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15636-7_22
Barbara Edwards, Michael B. Ward (2008)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5948/upo9780883859759.018
Yurong Dong, Hua Liu, Jianhua Ye, Gang Ma et al. • Axioms
(2025)
In this paper, an eco-epidemiological model with a weak Allee effect and prey disease dynamics is discussed. Mathematical features such as non-negativity, boundedness of solutions, and local stability of the feasible equilibria are discusse...
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Open Access (DOAJ)
DOI: 10.3390/axioms14070531
Paul J. Riccomini, Gregory W. Smith, Elizabeth M. Hughes, Karen M. Fries • Reading & Writing Quarterly
(2015)
Vocabulary understanding is a major contributor to overall comprehension in many content areas, including mathematics. Effective methods for teaching vocabulary in all content areas are diverse and long standing. Teaching and learning the l...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10573569.2015.1030995
Elizabeth de Freitas, Nathalie Sinclair • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2014)
This book explores alternative ways to consider the relationship between mathematics and the material world. Drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Châtelet and the post-humanist materialism of Karen Barad, the authors present an 'inclusive ma...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139600378
Edward A. Silver • for the learning of mathematics
(1994)
In mathematics classes at all levels of schooling in all countries of the world, students can be observed solving problems. The quality and authenticity of these mathematics problems has been the subject of many discussions and debates in r...
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• Routledge eBooks
(2011)
Mathematics Teacher Noticing is the first book to examine research on the particular type of noticing done by teachers---how teachers pay attention to and make sense of what happens in the complexity of instructional situations. In the mids...
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Open Access
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203832714
Alba G. Thompson • Educational Studies in Mathematics
(1984)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00305892
Mogens Niss • RUCforsk (Roskilde University)
(2003)
This paper presents the Danish KOM project (KOM: Competencies and the Learning of Mathematics), initiated by the Ministry of Education and other official bodies in order to create a platform for in-depth reform of Danish mathematics educati...
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Hyman Bass • Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
(2005)
I am one of a growing number of research mathematicians who are substantially engaged with school mathematics education. Such outreach has a long and honor-able tradition. In this lecture, I illustrate some of the ways that I think this can...
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public-domain
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0273-0979-05-01072-4
Howard F. Fehr • Mathematics Teacher Learning and Teaching PK-12
(1948)
There are persons who do not like to teach who are conducting classes in our schools. There are persons who do not like mathematics who have been assigned to handle algebra classes and to instruct in arithmetic. There are men and women who ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5951/mt.41.6.0270