{"title":"Measuring Austrian students’ procedural knowledge at the end of upper secondary level","authors":"Christoph Ableitinger, Christian Dorner","doi":"10.1080/0020739x.2023.2209093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739x.2023.2209093","url":null,"abstract":"The number of complaints university lecturers make about a lack of knowledge, especially first-year students’ procedural knowledge, has increased recently. Due to missing adequate empirical evidence, a survey of procedural knowledge among students of Austrian high schools in their final year was conducted. For this purpose, test items for procedural knowledge were created, validated and processed by a total of 455 students without technology and formula booklets. The test items were based on a theoretical model with the dimensions number of procedural steps, curricular grade level, content area and rating of importance. Linear models were used to describe the dependencies between the students’ success rate and these dimensions. The results show that the level of procedural knowledge among the students is relatively low overall. A closer look reveals that tasks at lower secondary level have a significantly higher students’ success rate than tasks at upper secondary level. Furthermore, there is a positive correlation between the students’ success rate of a task and the experts’ assessment of whether this task should be able to be solved by students without technological aids. Interestingly, the dimensions number of procedural steps and content area have no significant impact on the students’ success rate.","PeriodicalId":14026,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135690219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imaging phase plane models","authors":"R. Melka, H. A. Yousif","doi":"10.1080/0020739x.2023.2212272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739x.2023.2212272","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14026,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44917297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring how writing-to-learn in a mathematics methods course influences preservice teachers’ beliefs","authors":"Tye G. Campbell, Tracey Hodges, Sheunghyun Yeo, Erin Rich, Kaleigh Pate","doi":"10.1080/0020739x.2023.2212278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739x.2023.2212278","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14026,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42833824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teacher perspectives on adoption of student-made screencasts as a peer learning approach in secondary school mathematics","authors":"S. Snead, B. Loch, T. Keane","doi":"10.1080/0020739x.2023.2204106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739x.2023.2204106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14026,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45278390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A functional view on language: a methodology for mathematics education to study shifts in prospective teachers’ discursive patterns","authors":"Andreas Ebbelind","doi":"10.1080/0020739X.2023.2204506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2023.2204506","url":null,"abstract":"This paper set out to contribute to mathematics education research by elaborating on a methodology developed during a study, trying to understand, view and follow shifts in prospective teachers' discursive patterns. The methodology aims to illustrate and describe how prospective teachers adapt to the context of teaching through a flexible process. This flexible process is then described in the result as a narrative. It is argued that the methodology can be used in relation to different theoretical directions, such as research about beliefs, knowledge, or identity. Another contribution is that the methodology presented gives insights into bridging the gap between different analytical levels, micro and macro. With a theoretical foundation in ‘Cultural Worlds’ [Holland, D., Skinner, D., Lachicotte, W., & Cain, C. (1998). Identity and agency in cultural worlds. Harvard University Press.] the Social Semiotic approach of Systemic Functional Linguistics, SFL [Halliday, M., & Hasan, R. (1989). Language, context, and text: Aspects of language in a social-semiotic perspective (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press] is used as a methodological tool. SFL offers a toolkit that allows the analysis of meaning at the clause level to uncover how and why a speaker produces a particular wording rather than any other in a specific social practice. The paper aims to illustrate and describe how to go beyond findings in the micro-analysis and then present the result as a narrative case.","PeriodicalId":14026,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology","volume":"54 1","pages":"1731 - 1745"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47555945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Liljedahl, C. Andrà, Annette Rouleau, P. Martino
{"title":"Teacher tensions: managed or resolved","authors":"P. Liljedahl, C. Andrà, Annette Rouleau, P. Martino","doi":"10.1080/0020739X.2023.2190328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2023.2190328","url":null,"abstract":"Teacher practice is rife with tensions. Tensions around what and how best to teach, how to manage situations with students, and how to manage situations with colleagues, administrators, and parents. These tensions are often seen as pairs of opposing internal and external forces: this assessment is better, but it takes a lot of time. These forces are inescapable, and teachers have to learn to either manage them or resolve them. In this paper we look closely at tensions through the lens of opposing forces and, more interestingly, how teachers either learn to live with them or work to resolve them. And, in particular, we look at how this work differs if the tension exists between internal forces, external forces, or a tension between an internal and external force. Drawing on case studies of seven different participants we dive deep into the murky world of the lived experiences of teachers to understand better the way that tensions contribute to their beliefs, decisions, and actions.","PeriodicalId":14026,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology","volume":"54 1","pages":"1664 - 1680"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44743904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing a framework to support teachers’ implementation of mathematical modelling","authors":"Ayşe TEKİN DEDE, Esra Bukova Güzel","doi":"10.1080/0020739x.2023.2204098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739x.2023.2204098","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14026,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44313074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Saba Gerami, V. Mesa, Lynn Chamberlain, Carlos Quiroz
{"title":"The role of textbooks for supporting instruction with inquiry: the case of Active Calculus","authors":"Saba Gerami, V. Mesa, Lynn Chamberlain, Carlos Quiroz","doi":"10.1080/0020739x.2023.2197904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739x.2023.2197904","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14026,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43106365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who moved my triangle? Pre- and in-service teachers inquiring in a mathematics lab","authors":"Zehavit Kohen, Liron Schwartz-Aviad, Tomer Peleg","doi":"10.1080/0020739x.2023.2199314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739x.2023.2199314","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14026,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42407069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural values and prospective teachers’ beliefs about success in mathematics and in its teaching","authors":"Andreas Eichler, F. Ferretti, Andrea Maffia","doi":"10.1080/0020739X.2023.2203159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2023.2203159","url":null,"abstract":"International literature is increasingly disclosing the relevance of cultural aspects within the processes of teaching and learning mathematics. Knowledge is inextricably linked to the activities in which the subjects engage, and must be considered in relation to the socio-cultural context wherein the activity takes place. Literature reveals the relationship between the background culture (e.g. language, nationality, etc.) of prospective elementary teachers and their beliefs about mathematics and its teaching. In this paper, we define culture with reference to the wider discussion from cross-cultural psychology literature about cultural values, and we investigate if and how differences in individuals’ cultural values are related to prospective teachers’ beliefs about being successful in mathematics and in its teaching. We adopt a questionnaire from the studies by Schwartz to measure participants’ values. We assign each prospective teacher of our sample to a cluster of beliefs and we analyse how the beliefs of prospective teachers are related to their values. Results show that cultural values and beliefs about mathematics are related, while this is not the case for beliefs about the teaching of this subject.","PeriodicalId":14026,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology","volume":"54 1","pages":"1681 - 1696"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45798234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}