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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Math Education"”.
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Software tools for elementary math education : animated mathematical proofs
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics [6] has identified the learning of proofs as a critical goal for students from pre-kindergarten through grade 12 (p. 56). A proof for elementary students is not the highly structured mathematical argument seen in high school algebra classes. It is, …
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Design and implementation of a division tool for elementary math education
… testing of a novel division tool for elementary math education. Division is a concept with which many elementary students struggle. The division tool, which is an addition to the pen-based wireless classroom interaction system called Classroom Learning Partner, provides an interactive visual …
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The Pathways of Latina Students' Success in Math Education: A Narrative Study
… the systemic and personal obstacles Latina math educators encountered on their path to becoming teachers, while highlighting their resilience. The purpose of this study was to examine how Latina middle school teachers persevered through these obstacles and how cultural identity, family, and …
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Math as Text, Rhetoric as Reason: Can the Humanities Save Math Education?
… a student I had always struggled hopelessly with math. I noticed many of my classmates and associates outside of school shared similar experiences with this subject. However, a unique convergence of fortuitous circumstances shed some much needed light on my difficulties with math. Using a creative …
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Developing Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teachers: Understanding Equity and Access in Math Education
Background: Math is often thought to be one of the few objective, context-free areas of study. Yet, national and state assessment data repeatedly report disparities in mathematics achievement based on race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. The perceived neutrality of mathematics education …
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Developmental Math Education: The Bermuda Triangle of Student Success--Many Enter, but Few Succeed.
… to evaluate the effectiveness of developmental math and the predictors of student success in developmental math for a period of three years. Four of the study’s original eight predictors of student success were statistically significant. However, a model was created using multinomial regression. …
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Moving in, through, and out: Black and Latinx community college Student success in developmental math education
… who were successful in completing developmental math. This research study explored their perceptions of their experiences and aimed to identify strategies implemented aided them in progressing through developmental math education to college level math courses. This study was guided by three …
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Those Who Can: The Significance of Math Policymakers for Math Policy and Practice
… have upon equity in the policy and practice of math education. It looks beyond math education culture to the general culture, examining the way mindset is constructed and sustained through its discursive expressions in written and spoken language and identifying the positioning it entails and …
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Effects of CAI on the achievement and attitudes of high school geometry students
Computers for high school math education.
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Effects of CAI on the achievement and attitudes of high school geometry students
Computers for high school math education.
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An Examination of Black Male Success in High School Mathematics
… instructional technology on 10th and 12th grade math scores? This dissertation employs two waves of the Education Longitudinal Study (2002 & 2004) and multivariate statistical techniques to explore the relative importance of instructional technology (implementation by teachers and training for …
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Os jogos e os números inteiros.
… facilitating instrument and motivating learning education in study of operations with integers in a panel of the 7th year of the Elementary School of the municipal of the city of São Bentinho-PB. In this research we seek to highlight the importance of Math education games for some authors and to …
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A Multilevel Analysis of Student Engagement, Teacher Quality, and Math Achievement
This study examined the relationships between math engagement, teacher quality, school factors, and math achievement in middle school students. This study used the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data from the 2007 wave. The data were analyzed using exploratory factor …
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Attitudes and Beliefs amongst Parents and Students in Mathematics
… drive and performance in a high school mathematics class. Many other researchers have looked at the pure involvement of parents but I would like to go farther than that and look at the actual kind of involvement. When parents have had bad experiences with mathematics, does that correlate …
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Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Early Mathematics: What Teachers Know and How It Associates with Teaching and Learning
… to as pedagogical content knowledge, in early mathematics (PCK-EM) and investigate how PCK-EM relates to the quality of their mathematics teaching quality and students' mathematical learning outcomes. A total of 182 teachers working with high need students from Pre-K through Grade 3 in an urban …
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Uma visita ao universo matemático de Lewis Carrol e o (re)encontro com sua lógica do nonsense
Notable mathematics teacher, Lewis Carroll, pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), made the mixture of mathematics with literature a ludic environment for learning that discipline. Author of Alice s Adventures In Wonderland and its sequel Alice Through The Looking Glass, he eventually …
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The Mathematical Disposition Of Middle School Students: An Examination Of Students’ Self-Concept Of Ability In Mathematics
… describe their self-concept of ability in math? What teacher/classroom interventions are recognized by students as having an impact on their self-concept of ability? This study specifically addressed the utilization of student voice and the need to recognize self-concept of ability as a …
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Implications of Interactions Among Society, Education and Technology: A Comparison of Multiple Linear Regression and Multilevel Modeling in Mathematics Achievement Analyses
… between student and teacher characteristics and math achievement as measured by the state-mandated Maryland School Assessment mathematics exam. The sample for the study consisted of 3,514 students taught by 99 teachers in a small Appalachian school district in western Maryland. The first analytic …
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Fragile Strength: Math Self-Efficacy of High Achieving Girls
<p>Math gender gap research shows girls’ math self-efficacy to be correlated with their interest in pursuing higher levels of math education and STEM career opportunities. Most math gender gap studies have used only quantitative approaches, thereby missing the opportunity to gain deeper …
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Exploring math teachers' own classroom experiences with deciding how to respond in the moment to student understanding
Buchanan, Cherigale White The math education community has made strides in understanding how math teachers help students develop a conceptual understanding of math ideas. In-the-moment instructional decisions are essential for helping students develop a conceptual understanding of important math …
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