Beyond the Apparent Banality of the Mathematics Classroom

Beyond the Apparent Banality of the Mathematics Classroom
Author: Colette Laborde
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2007-03-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0387304517

New research in mathematics education deals with the complexity of the mathematics’ classroom. The classroom teaching situation constitutes a pertinent unit of analysis for research into the ternary didactic relationship which binds teachers, students and mathematical knowledge. The classroom is considered as a complex didactic system, which offers the researcher an opportunity to gauge the boundaries of the freedom that is left with regard to choices about the knowledge to be taught and the ways of organizing the students’ learning, while giveing rise to the study of interrelations between three main elements of the teaching process the: mathematical content to be taught and learned, management of the various time dimensions, and activity of the teacher who prepares and manages the class, to the benefit of the students' knowledge and the teachers' own experience. This volume, reprinted from Educational Studies in Mathematics, Volume 59, focuses on classroom situations as a unit of analysis, the work of the teacher, and is strongly anchored in original theoretical frameworks. The contributions are formulated from the perspective of one or more theoretical frameworks but they are tackled by means of empirical investigations.

Handbook of International Research in Mathematics Education

Handbook of International Research in Mathematics Education
Author: Lyn D. English
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 739
Release: 2015-07-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134626649

This third edition of the Handbook of International Research in Mathematics Education provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent theoretical and practical developments in the field of mathematics education. Authored by an array of internationally recognized scholars and edited by Lyn English and David Kirshner, this collection brings together overviews and advances in mathematics education research spanning established and emerging topics, diverse workplace and school environments, and globally representative research priorities. New perspectives are presented on a range of critical topics including embodied learning, the theory-practice divide, new developments in the early years, educating future mathematics education professors, problem solving in a 21st century curriculum, culture and mathematics learning, complex systems, critical analysis of design-based research, multimodal technologies, and e-textbooks. Comprised of 12 revised and 17 new chapters, this edition extends the Handbook’s original themes for international research in mathematics education and remains in the process a definitive resource for the field.

The Role of the History of Mathematics in the Teaching/Learning Process

The Role of the History of Mathematics in the Teaching/Learning Process
Author: Sixto Romero Sanchez
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2023-06-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3031299000

This volume presents multiple perspectives on the uses of the history of mathematics for teaching and learning, including the value of historical topics in challenging mathematics tasks, for provoking teachers’ reflection on the nature of mathematics, curriculum development questions that mirror earlier pedagogical choices in the history of mathematics education, and the history of technological innovations in the teaching and learning of mathematics. An ethnomathematical perspective on the history of mathematics challenges readers to appreciate the role of mathematics in perpetuating consequences of colonialism. Histories of the textbook and its uses offer interesting insights into how technology has changed the fundamental role of curriculum materials and classroom pedagogies. History is explored as a source for the training of teachers, for good puzzles and problems, and for a broad understanding of mathematics education policy. Third in a series of sourcebooks from the International Commission for the Study and Improvement of Mathematics Teaching, this collection of cutting-edge research, stories from the field, and policy implications is a contemporary and global perspective on current possibilities for the history of mathematics for mathematics education. This latest volume integrates discussions regarding history of mathematics, history of mathematics education and history of technology for education that have taken place at the Commission's recent annual conferences.

Networking of Theories as a Research Practice in Mathematics Education

Networking of Theories as a Research Practice in Mathematics Education
Author: Angelika Bikner-Ahsbahs
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2014-08-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319053892

How can we deal with the diversity of theories in mathematics education? This was the main question that led the authors of this book to found the Networking Theories Group. Starting from the shared assumption that the existence of different theories is a resource for mathematics education research, the authors have explored the possibilities of interactions between theories, such as contrasting, coordinating, and locally integrating them. The book explains and illustrates what it means to network theories; it presents networking as a challenging but fruitful research practice and shows how the Group dealt with this challenge considering five theoretical approaches, namely the approach of Action, Production, and Communication (APC), the Theory of Didactical Situations (TDS), the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic (ATD), the approach of Abstraction in Context (AiC), and the Theory of Interest-Dense Situations (IDS). A synthetic presentation of each theory and their connections shows how the activity of networking generates questions at the theoretical, methodological and practical levels and how the work on these questions leads to both theoretical and practical progress. The core of the book consists of four new networking case studies which illustrate what exactly can be gained by this approach and what kind of difficulties might arise.

Caught in the Act

Caught in the Act
Author: Cyril Julie
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2019-12-11
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1928480373

The research reported in Caught in the Act draws together the insights gained from a continuous professional development initiative for high school mathematics teachers, teaching in low socio-economic status and socially challenged environments in South Africa. The chapters show the possibilities for enhancing achievement in school mathematics if a strength-based approach is adopted to develop teaching with teachers and when their concerns are taken seriously. The book demonstrates that the ecological relevance – fitness for the context in which teachers are teaching – of the “goods” developed and distributed by initiatives should be a major consideration to offer hope for sustainable implementation to improve school mathematics education. The book is of interest to mathematics teachers, school leaders, mathematics curriculum advisors, policy makers and researchers.

EDUCATION & SCIENCE 2022-IV

EDUCATION & SCIENCE 2022-IV
Author: Şaziye DURUKAN
Publisher: Efe Akademi Yayınları
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2023-01-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 6256939026

PARADIGMATIC STANCE IN RESEARCH Barış KÖSRETAŞ, Alper Yusuf KÖROĞLU COMMERCIAL GAMES AND THEIR EDUCATIONAL VALUE: A REVIEW Kadir Yücel KAYA, Seçil TISOĞLU THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN TEST ANXIETY AND LEARNING DIFFICULTIES IN CHILDREN Nergis RAMO AKGÜN ANALYSIS OF FINNISH CORE CURRICULUM IN RELATION TO CURRICULUM THEORIES Suat KAYA CRITICAL TRANSLINGUAL APPROACH: A FRAMEWORK FOR PROMOTING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION . Tuba YILMAZ, Esma YILDIRIM GENERALIZATION, ALGEBRAIC THINKING, AND PATTERN: AN OVERVIEW Fatma ERDOĞAN, Sude AY USING SHORT STORIES IN LANGUAGE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT Hülya KÜÇÜKOĞLU POST COVID-19 METAPHORIC PERCEPTIONS OF PRE-SERVICE ARABIC TEACHERS ON THE CONCEPT OF “DISTANCE EDUCATION” Halil İbrahim ŞANVERDİ, Gül ŞEN YAMAN

The Creative Enterprise of Mathematics Teaching Research

The Creative Enterprise of Mathematics Teaching Research
Author: Bronislaw Czarnocha
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2016-07-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9463005498

The Creative Enterprise of Mathematics Teaching Research presents the results and methodology of work of the teaching-research community of practice of the Bronx (TR Team of the Bronx). It has a twofold aim of impacting both teachers of Mathematics and researchers in Mathematics Education. This volume can be used by teachers of mathematics who want to use research to reflect upon and to improve their teaching craft, as well as by researchers who are interested in uncovering riches of classroom learning/teaching for research investigations. This book represents the results of a collaboration of instructors discussing their own instruction research, analyzed through a conceptual framework obtained via the synthesis of creativity research and educational learning theories, based upon the work of Piaget and Vygotsky. The editors see an urgent need for creative synthesis of research and teaching, an example of which is presented in the book. Two central themes of the book are the methodology of TR/NYCity model and creativity, more precisely, creativity of the Aha moment formulated by Arthur Koestler (1964) in a very profound but little known theory of bisociation exposed in his work “The Act of Creation”. Incorporation of the theory of bisociation into classroom teaching of mathematics provides the key to enable students who may struggle with mathematics to engage their own creativity, become involved in their learning process and thus reach their full potential of excellence. Creativity in teaching remedial mathematics is teaching gifted students how to access their own giftedness.

Extended Abstracts Spring 2019

Extended Abstracts Spring 2019
Author: Berta Barquero
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2021-09-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030764133

The book presents research works developed within the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic (ATD) by senior and young researchers that participated in the Intensive Research Program “Advances in the anthropological theory of the didactic and their consequences in curricula and teacher education” held at the Centre de Recerca Matematica (CRM) in Barcelona. It is organized in three axes of current research on the ATD: teacher education and the professionalization of teaching; the curriculum problem in the historical transition from the classical paradigm of visiting works to the emerging didactic paradigm of questioning the world; and research in didactics at the university level.

Mathematical Problem Solving

Mathematical Problem Solving
Author: Peter Liljedahl
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2019-02-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030104729

This book contributes to the field of mathematical problem solving by exploring current themes, trends and research perspectives. It does so by addressing five broad and related dimensions: problem solving heuristics, problem solving and technology, inquiry and problem posing in mathematics education, assessment of and through problem solving, and the problem solving environment. Mathematical problem solving has long been recognized as an important aspect of mathematics, teaching mathematics, and learning mathematics. It has influenced mathematics curricula around the world, with calls for the teaching of problem solving as well as the teaching of mathematics through problem solving. And as such, it has been of interest to mathematics education researchers for as long as the field has existed. Research in this area has generally aimed at understanding and relating the processes involved in solving problems to students’ development of mathematical knowledge and problem solving skills. The accumulated knowledge and field developments have included conceptual frameworks for characterizing learners’ success in problem solving activities, cognitive, metacognitive, social and affective analysis, curriculum proposals, and ways to promote problem solving approaches.