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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Mathematical thinking"”.
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Movement in Students’ Mathematical Thinking and Knowing
… education shows that movement is enmeshed in thinking and knowing. Researchers theorise the body and cognition in different ways, however, and conventional concepts of a disembodied mind often continue to be privileged over movement in cognition. The core provocation for this research, then, …
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Helping Prospective Teachers to Understand Children's Mathematical Thinking
… education teachers' understanding of students' mathematical thinking. Five web-based lessons on various topics in children's mathematical development were created for this study. Each contained a short reading introducing a videotaped clinical interview of a young child performing a mathematical …
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Oral Story: A pedagogical tool encouraging children's mathematical thinking.
… a state infant school, to encourage children’s mathematical thinking. Two research questions are framed as follows: In using oral story as a pedagogical approach for mathematical thinking, what characterises the nature of the interaction between teachers and children and the role of children as …
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Factors influencing preservice teachers’ noticing of students’ mathematical thinking
… measures, this dissertation explores how PSTs’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (MKT; Ball, Thames, & Phelps, 2008), beliefs about the role of children’s thinking in math teaching, and experiences may be related to their noticing of students’ mathematical thinking. The study involves 92 PSTs …
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Understanding linear algebra concepts through the embodied, symbolic and formal worlds of mathematical thinking
… based on the framework and expressed their thinking through their involvements in tests, interviews and concept maps. The results suggest that the students had limited understanding of the concepts, they struggled to recognise the concepts in different registers, and their lack of ability in …
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Exploring the Mathematical Thinking of Bilingual Primary-Grade Students: CGI Problem Solving From Kindergarten Through 2nd Grade
This study explores the mathematical thinking of native Spanish-speaking, primary-grade Latina/o students learning in bilingual classrooms where the majority of their mathematics instruction has been in Spanish. Guided by sociocultural theory, which emphasizes the important connection between …
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Spatial Skills Activities in the Middle School Mathematics Teachers' Toolkit: The Impact of Spatial Skill Activities on Mathematical Thinking
… by middle school mathematics teachers on the mathematical reasoning of their students. Current research suggests that success in spatial reasoning is a strong predictor of success in STEM fields, and is known to be strong in successful mathematicians (Newcombe, 2013; Tepylo Moss, 2013; Uttal …
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Prospective Teachers' Knowledge of Secondary and Abstract Algebra and their Use of this Knowledge while Noticing Students' Mathematical Thinking
… in the teaching practice of noticing students' mathematical thinking. I drew on the theory, Knowledge of Nonlocal Mathematics for Teaching, which suggests that teachers' knowledge of advanced mathematics can become useful for teaching when it first helps reshape their understanding of the …
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An evaluation of the questions in the mathematics textbooks of Saudi Arabian secondary schools
… to discover the extent to which they measure mathematical thinking skills, conform to criteria of good formulation and layout, and reinforce a positive attitude towards mathematics on the students' part, according to school teachers and inspectors. Based on a review of the literature, but …
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Teacher Efficacy in Relation to Mathematics Reform: A Look at a Collaborative Group of Elementary Teachers
… months in eight sessions to examine their own mathematical thinking and beliefs as well as the mathematical thinking of children. Results indicated that general and personal teacher efficacy changed in a positive direction toward the use of Standards-based mathematics. These results suggest …
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The Role of Mathematics in Engineering Practice and in the Formation of Engineers
… there is currently no broad picture of the mathematical expertise required or used by practising engineers. The population of interest in this study comprises professional engineers practising in Ireland. A sequential explanatory mixed methods design, where the subsequent collection and …
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Beyond computation in mathematics: An instructional study with third-grade bilingual Mexican American students
… contrast, only a few studies have examined the mathematical thinking (e.g., in the solution of arithmetic word problems) of elementary school-age bilingual Hispanic children.
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Modeling Middle Grade Students' Algebraic and Covariational Reasoning using Unit Transformations and Working Memory
Quantitative reasoning permeates mathematical thinking, and mathematics education researchers have taken a quantitative reasoning approach to examining and modeling students' mathematical thinking and development in various domains. From this approach, secondary and post-secondary researchers have …
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Mathematical Poise and Movement in Thinking: The Zero Goes on Vacation
This is a clinical case study that describes mathematical thinking of a seven year old girl, Kay. It reports analyses of video-taped clinical interviews using Piagetian tasks of conservation, number and numeral and other number tasks. It includes a report of microanalysis of one interview, called …
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Understanding the beliefs and behaviours of low-skilled adults as they re-engage with mathematics
… about mathematics and how they engaged with mathematical content delivered as part of foundation-level vocational programmes in New Zealand. It also examined how low-skilled learners holding procedurally-oriented beliefs responded to a classroom environment that emphasised conceptual …
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The place of discrete mathematics in the school curriculum: An analysis of preservice teachers' perceptions of the integration of discrete mathematics into secondary level courses
… 7-12) is an important consideration because the mathematical area is dynamic and interesting, providing students the development of mathematical thinking. Also, it provides for teachers the opportunity to develop innovative mathematics instruction. Since the publication of the document Curriculum …
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Abstract geometry in the motets of Dunstable and Dufay. Volume 1 and 2
… architect was steeped in geometrical and mathematical thinking. Researchers such as Lesser, von Simson and Wittkower have shown that, from its overall proportion to its most intimate detail of ornamentation, the Gothic cathedral is derived from the sacred lore of numbers and its …
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Using Mathematical Discourse to Engage Learners in System of Equations
… project explores strategies for integrating mathematical discourse into high school algebra instruction through a four-lesson sequence on solving systems of equations. Grounded in research on discourse-based mathematics teaching, the project emphasizes structured opportunities for students to …
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Kindergarten Children's Conception of Knowledge In Jewish Education
… it conveys the children’s ability to use logico-mathematical knowledge in the three above- mentioned areas. In the research regarding historical temporal time, analysis of children’s responses found 11 ways in which children approached the topic using logico- mathematical thinking. The findings …
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