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Axelsen, Taryn; Galligan, Linda; Woolcott, Geoff – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2018
Reflective practice in mathematical teaching improves teaching skills and confidence. This paper investigates affect-based critical moments as a reflective practice for pre-service teaching. An embedded case study is presented by one regional university as a discovery into the "reflective" phase of the Enhancement-Learning-Reflection…
Descriptors: Reflection, Psychological Patterns, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Fonger, Nicole L. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2013
This research study was specifically concerned with the development, testing, and revision to an instructional theory for studying the mathematical concepts of equivalence and equation solving with multiple representations and multiple tools. Following a design research approach, a collaborative teaching experiment was conducted with a ninth-grade…
Descriptors: Equations (Mathematics), Problem Solving, Mathematical Concepts, Educational Theories
Torner, Gunter – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
To probe beyond declarative knowledge about real numbers in secondary school, the authors interviewed students in Grades 9, 10 and 12. The main question seems to be whether the length of a decimal expansion is "indefinite" or "infinite." It blurs the mental representation of rational numbers as well. (Contains 3 footnotes.) [For complete…
Descriptors: Numbers, Grade 9, Cognitive Processes, Case Studies
Walker, Kimberly A.; Zeidler, Dana L.; Simmons, Michael L.; Ackett, Wayne A. – 2000
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between students' conceptions of the nature of science and their reactions to evidence that challenged their beliefs about socio-scientific issues. The study used 248 students from 9th and 10th grade general science classes, 11th and 12th grade honors biology, honors science, and…
Descriptors: Biology, College Seniors, Critical Thinking, Earth Science