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Parent Workshops Focused on Mathematics Knowledge for Parenting (MKP): Shifting Beliefs about Learning Mathematics
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Eisenreich, Heidi; Andreasen, Janet – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which parents of first, second, and third grade students who attended a two-day workshop on mathematics strategies shifted beliefs about learning mathematics as compared to parents who did not attend the workshops. Parents impact their children's mathematics learning when the students are…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Workshops, Child Rearing, Parenting Skills
Encouraging Sixth-Grade Students' Problem-Solving Performance by Teaching through Problem Solving
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Bostic, Jonathan D.; Pape, Stephen J.; Jacobbe, Tim – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2016
This teaching experiment provided students with continuous engagement in a problem-solving based instructional approach during one mathematics unit. Three sections of sixth-grade mathematics were sampled from a school in Florida, U.S.A. and one section was randomly assigned to experience teaching through problem solving. Students' problem-solving…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Grade 6, Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
Effects of Mathematics Integration in a Teaching Methods Course on Mathematics Ability of Preservice Agricultural Education Teachers
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Stripling, Christopher T.; Roberts, T. Grady – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2014
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of incorporating mathematics teaching and integration strategies (MTIS) in a teaching methods course on preservice agricultural teachers' mathematics ability. The research design was quasi-experimental and utilized a nonequivalent control group. The MTIS treatment had a positive effect on the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Agricultural Education, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Skills
Effects of Mathematics Integration in a Teaching Methods Course on Self-Efficacy of Preservice Agricultural Education Teachers
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Stripling, Christopher T.; Roberts, T. Grady – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2013
Teachers who are efficacious persevere through challenges in the learning environment and put forth more effort in designing learning activities. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of mathematics teaching and integration strategies (MTIS) on preservice agricultural teachers' personal mathematics efficacy, mathematics teaching…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Methods Courses
Social Mathworking: The Effects of Online Reflection on Algebra I Students' Sense of Community and Perceived Learning
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Allanson, Patricia Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to determine if online reflections through social networking affect students' sense of community and levels of perceived conceptual learning in Algebra I courses. Social constructivism, connectivism, and computer-mediated communication in relation to reflective practices form the theoretical and practical framework…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Social Networks, Communities of Practice
Reform-Based Curriculum & Acquisition of the Levels
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Halat, Erdogan – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2007
The aim of this study was to compare the acquisition of the van Hiele levels of sixth-grade students engaged in instruction using a reform-based curriculum with sixth-grade students engaged in instruction using a traditional curriculum. There were 273 sixth-grade mathematics students, 123 in the control group and 150 in the treatment group,…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Educational Change, Conventional Instruction, Comparative Analysis