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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"The Nature of Mathematics"”.
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Examining Roberts County Mathematics Teachers' Beliefs Regarding the Nature of Mathematics and Their Classroom Learning Environment
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of mathematics teachers beliefs regarding the nature of mathematics and their classroom learning environment in Roberts County (fictional). The study investigated 165 kindergarten through twelfth grade mathematics teachers that taught at …
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Paradigm development among practicing school mathematics teachers
This study explored the personal histories of four practicing school mathematics teachers in order to gain insight and a holistic understanding of the cognitive, affective, and social processes involved in their lives that relate to the development of their views about the nature of mathematics and …
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How Doctoral Students Construe their Mathematics when Communicating their Research
… a crucial role in doing, learning, and teaching mathematics, and spoken and written communication skills are essential for academics, including mathematicians, when conducting research and disseminating results. Building on the role of communication in mathematics and in the process of becoming …
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Early Childhood (K-5) Preservice Teachers' Beliefs about Mathematics, Teaching Mathematics, and Learning Mathematics
<p>Mathematics teacher educators have agreed that teachers' beliefs about mathematics are contributing factors in their instructional practices, that preservice teachers' views of teaching and learning mathematics are influenced by their beliefs about mathematics, and that the process of becoming a …
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Exploring Kuwaiti mathematics: student-teachers' beliefs toward using Logo and mathematics education
The main objective of this study is to explore the effect of one taught course, a Logo module, on Kuwaiti elementary mathematics student-teachers’ beliefs about Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Logo. The Logo module incorporated ICT, in particular the Logo programming language, as …
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The Relationship Between Mathematical Knowledge of Numbers and Operations and Mathematics Beliefs of Prospective Teachers
… predict student achievement based on a teacher's mathematics knowledge for teaching (MKT) in numbers and operations concepts. Additional mathematics beliefs items asked participants to rate their level of agreement with math myths and math anxiety statements. Participants were categorized into …
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Rural High School Mathematics Teachers' Response to Mathematics Reform Curriculum Integration and Professional Development
The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine rural high school mathematics teachers’ responses to the initial implementation of Louisiana’s Comprehensive Curriculum during their second year of involvement in a professional development program. The curriculum changes were the culmination of …
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Carnap and the Ontology of Mathematics
In this thesis I investigate Rudolf Carnap's philosophy of mathematics. Most philosophers assume that the nature of mathematics raises deep philosophical questions, which call for theories about how we manage to know about and interact with abstract objects. Carnap's position, in contrast, is …
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A factor-analytic study of mathematics anxiety
The purpose of this study was to investigate student attitudes towards mathematics and mathematics anxiety. In the past, mathematics anxiety has been measured by using different instruments and characterized as a unidimensional construct. However, prior studies concerning mathematics anxiety have …
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A comparative philosophical analysis of primary mathematics curricula between the mainland of China and England in the United Kingdom
… undertakes a comparative philosophical analysis of ongoing primary mathematics curricula in the mainland of China and England, while acknowledging the profound impact that the philosophy of mathematics education has on shaping these curricula, as evidenced by the works of Hersh (1979), Lerman …
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The Role of Mathematics in Engineering Practice and in the Formation of Engineers
This research investigated the role of mathematics in engineering practice and whether there is a relationship between students’ experiences with school mathematics and their choice of engineering as a career. The study was inspired by the observation that there is a lacuna in the scholarly …
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The Effects of a Combined Mathematics Content/Methods Course Involving Learning Cycles on Preservice Elementary Teachers' Beliefs about the Nature, Teaching and Learning of Mathematics
The purpose of this study was to determine whether a one-semester combined mathematics content/methods course based on Simon's (1994) Learning Cycle framework for the mathematical preparation of preservice elementary teachers was more effective at aligning preservice teachers' beliefs with the …
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A defence of predicativism as a philosophy of mathematics
A specification of a mathematical object is impredicative if it essentially involves quantification over a domain which includes the object being specified (or sets which contain that object, or similar). The basic worry is that we have no non-circular way of understanding such a specification. …
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Learning and teaching mathematics : interpreting student teacher's voices
This research study has investigated the beliefs that prospective primary school teachers hold about the epistemology of mathematics, and the teaching and learning of mathematics. In particular, it considered the following questions: * What beliefs and attitudes about mathematics and mathematics …