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Title: Algebraic Thinking of Sixth Graders Through the Lens of Multimodality
Author: Lentz, Ute
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: This study explores ways in which sixth graders without prior formal algebra instruction attempt to generalize algebraic growing patterns. In a teaching experiment setting, two pairs of students solved the growing pattern tasks while having access...

Title: An Exploration of Gender Differences in Seventh-Grade Single-Sex Mathematics Classrooms in a Co-Educational Public School
Author: Rohn, Debra
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: The purpose of this exploratory case study was to examine the learning experiences of students enrolled in an all-girls and all-boys math class. Forty-nine (22 boys and 27 girls) seventh-grade students from a rural co-educational public middle sch...

Title: EFFECTS AND PERCEPTIONS OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT ON THE MATHEMATICAL ACHIEVEMENT OF STUDENTS IN A STEM COURSE: A MIXED-METHOD STUDY
Author: Johnson, Sarah
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education
Description: To understand how to identify and examine factors that influence parental involvement and math achievement of high school students, I conducted a mixed-method study was guided by the following questions: 1. What are the perceptions of students, te...

Title: ENGAGING DEVELOPMENTAL MATHEMATICS STUDENTS IN PROBLEM POSING
Author: Sevier, John
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: This study examines the impact of problem posing on developmental mathematics students. Currently, students enter post-secondary institutions underprepared for college mathematics and are required to take developmental mathematics courses. Given t...

Title: Microspherical Photonics for Enhancing Resolution of Optical Microscopy and Sensitivity of Focal Plane Arrays
Author: Brettin, Aaron
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: It is shown that the resolution of virtual images of dye-doped dielectric nanospheres obtained through dielectric microspheres can be increased beyond the classical diffraction limit by decreasing the period of nanoplasmonic array used for localiz...

Title: Multi-Representation of Linear Functions for Pre-College Students in a STEM Context
Author: Raja, Shagufta
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Curriculum planning
Description: In this case study, five pre-college students and a teacher were interviewed using an assessment instrument consisting of six problems involving linear functions. The qualitative research study model was inspired by Lesh, Post and Behr's Translati...

Title: Navigating the Epistemological Rocky Waters of Mathematics Education: An Instrumental Multiple Case Study
Author: Schinck, Amélie
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Teachers--Training of, Curriculum planning
Description: The various beliefs about mathematics and its role in society led to differing beliefs about what it means to learn mathematics and how best to teach it. Mathematics education research and organizations such as the National Council of Teachers of ...

Title: Should I Stay or Should I Go? Stress, Coping, and Retention among Novice Teachers
Author: Fisher, Molly
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, Education, Secondary
Description: There are many factors that lead to stress and burnout of teachers that ultimately result in up to half of teachers leaving the profession before their sixth year of experience. This study is a mixed-method approach to the problem that began with ...

Title: Students' Understanding of Quadratic Functions: A Multiple Case Study
Author: Sevim, Volkan
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: The purpose of this study was to explore how individual students understand various aspects of quadratic functions such as quadratic growth, quadratic correspondence, quadratic graphs, vertex points, x-intercepts, y-intercept, line of symmetry, pa...

Title: The Effects of Explicit Self-regulated Learning Strategy Instruction on Mathematics Achievement
Author: Jenkins, Janet
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Curriculum planning
Description: Self-regulated learning includes the use of a set of strategies for planning, monitoring, and self-evaluating students' efforts toward reaching specific learning goals. This study examined the extent to which explicit self-regulated learning strat...

Title: The Heuristics of Statistical Argumentation: Scaffolding at the Postsecondary Level
Author: Pardue, Teneal
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: Language plays a key role in statistics and, by extension, in statistics education. Enculturating students into the practice of statistics requires preparing them to communicate results of data analysis. Statistical argumentation is one way of pro...

Title: The effects of students' profile, communication, and discourse in an advanced placement statistics classroom
Author: Royster, Norma
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Curriculum planning, Education, Secondary
Description: This study sought to describe the communicative aspect that should be part of any secondary mathematics classroom and, more specifically, the statistics classroom. Focusing on the observation of students allowed for a detailed account of the learn...

Title: USES OF ARGUMENTATION IN AN UNDERGRADUATE CALCULUS CLASSROOM: MEDIATING STUDENT GENERALIZATION WITHIN RIEMANN SUMS AND INTEGRATION
Author: Bumgardner, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, Education, Secondary
Description: Many of the struggles students face in postsecondary mathematics courses arise from their rote memorization of mathematical concepts, rather than having developed a relational understanding of these concepts. A relational understanding of mathemat...

Title: Understanding the Probability Literacy of High School Students
Author: Coon, Fred
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, Mathematics
Description: This multi-case study examined high school students’ probability literacy, with focus on randomness, independence, and sample space. Task-based interviews were used with ten high school students. A Levels of Understanding Matrix (LUM), that was cr...

Title: WRITING TO LEARN STATISTICS IN AN ADVANCED PLACEMENT STATISTICS COURSE
Author: Northrup, Christian
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, Statistics
Description: This study investigated the use of writing in a statistics classroom to learn if writing provided a rich description of problem-solving processes of students as they solved problems. Through analysis of 329 written samples provided by students, it...