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Multivariable Calculus Instructors’ Reports of Resource use 多元微积分教师的资源使用报告

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International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Pub Date : 2024-07-27 DOI: 10.1007/s40753-024-00243-5

Deborah Moore-Russo, Rafael Martínez-Planell, Shelby Stanhope, Paul Seeburger, Stepan Paul, Monica M. VanDieren

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Students' Self-work During Lectures in Calculus Courses – Cognitive and Affective Effects of a Small Intervention 微积分课程授课期间学生的自我工作--小规模干预措施的认知和情感影响

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International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Pub Date : 2024-07-18 DOI: 10.1007/s40753-024-00249-z

Arielle Leitner, Mika Gabel

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When Learner-Centered Teaching and Learning Goes Online: Zooming into Linear Algebra Tutorials During the Pandemic 当 "以学生为中心的教学 "走向网络：在大流行病期间放大线性代数教程

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International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Pub Date : 2024-07-08 DOI: 10.1007/s40753-024-00244-4

Miriam N. Wallach, Igor’ Kontorovich

{"title":"When Learner-Centered Teaching and Learning Goes Online: Zooming into Linear Algebra Tutorials During the Pandemic","authors":"Miriam N. Wallach, Igor’ Kontorovich","doi":"10.1007/s40753-024-00244-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40753-024-00244-4","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic shifted higher education online, drawing attention to synchronous learning and instruction on digital communication platforms. Learner-centered teaching practices in the tertiary level, such as mathematical discussions, have been shown to benefit student learning. The interactions involved in online synchronous mathematical discussions have been studied less. Most research taps into these aspects drawing on students’ academic outcomes and reflective interviews. This study explores instructional practices as they unfold online, with a focus on student-instructor and student-student interactions. We zoom-in to online synchronous teaching and learning processes on a popular communication platform by analyzing Linear Algebra tutorials in the first pandemic year. Using the commognitive framework, we characterize instructional interactions with the construct of a learning-teaching agreement. The analysis resulted in three interactional patterns, where in all cases, the tutorial transformed at some point to the one dominated by the instructor.","PeriodicalId":42532,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141575112","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}

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Student Interpretations of Eigenequations in Linear Algebra and Quantum Mechanics 学生对线性代数和量子力学中自变量的解释

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International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Pub Date : 2024-06-28 DOI: 10.1007/s40753-024-00241-7

Megan Wawro, Andi Pina, John R. Thompson, Zeynep Topdemir, Kevin Watson

{"title":"Student Interpretations of Eigenequations in Linear Algebra and Quantum Mechanics","authors":"Megan Wawro, Andi Pina, John R. Thompson, Zeynep Topdemir, Kevin Watson","doi":"10.1007/s40753-024-00241-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40753-024-00241-7","url":null,"abstract":"This work investigates how students interpret various eigenequations in different contexts for (2 times 2) matrices: (Avec {x}=lambda vec {x}) in mathematics and either (hat{S}_x| + rangle _x=frac{hbar }{2}| + rangle _x) or (hat{S}_z| + rangle =frac{hbar }{2}| + rangle) in quantum mechanics. Data were collected from two sources in a senior-level quantum mechanics course; one is video, transcript and written work of individual, semi-structured interviews; the second is written work from the same course three years later. We found two principal ways in which students reasoned about the equal sign within the mathematics eigenequation and at times within the quantum mechanical eigenequations: with a functional interpretation and/or a relational interpretation. Second, we found three distinct ways in which students explained how they made sense of the physical meaning conveyed by the quantum mechanical eigenequations: via a measurement interpretation, potential measurement interpretation, or correspondence interpretation of the equation. Finally, we present two themes that emerged in the ways that students compared the different eigenequations: attention to form and attention to conceptual (in)compatibility. These findings are discussed in relation to relevant literature, and their instructional implications are also explored.","PeriodicalId":42532,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141509531","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}

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Critical, Intersectional, Quantitative Analyses of Instructional Practices and Changes in Undergraduate Students’ Math Affect 对教学实践和本科生数学学习效果变化的批判性、交叉性和定量分析

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International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Pub Date : 2024-06-21 DOI: 10.1007/s40753-024-00242-6

Naneh Apkarian, Matthew Voigt, Jessica Ellis Hagman, Rachel Tremaine, Ciera Street, Antonio E. Martinez, Jason Guglielmo

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Graduate Teaching Assistants’ Perception of Student Difficulties and Use in Teaching 研究生助教对学生困难的看法及在教学中的应用

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International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1007/s40753-024-00239-1

Jungeun Park, Douglas Rizzolo

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Understanding How and When Graduate Student Instructors Break Through Challenges with Active Learning 了解研究生导师如何以及何时通过主动学习突破挑战

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International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Pub Date : 2024-05-24 DOI: 10.1007/s40753-024-00240-8

Elijah S. Meyer, Jennifer L. Green, Elizabeth G. Arnold, Megan H. Wickstrom

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Investigating the Impact of Active Learning in Large Coordinated Calculus Courses 调查主动学习在大型协调微积分课程中的影响

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International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Pub Date : 2024-03-02 DOI: 10.1007/s40753-024-00234-6

Shay Fuchs, Gurpreet Sahmbi

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Students’ Mathematical Thinking in Movement 学生在运动中的数学思维

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International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Pub Date : 2024-01-27 DOI: 10.1007/s40753-023-00233-z

Robyn Gandell

{"title":"Students’ Mathematical Thinking in Movement","authors":"Robyn Gandell","doi":"10.1007/s40753-023-00233-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40753-023-00233-z","url":null,"abstract":"Mathematics education research is increasingly focused on how students’ movement interacts with their cognition. Although usually characterized as embodiment research, movement research often theorizes the body in diverse ways. Ingold (Making: Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture, 2013) proposes that thinking and knowing emerge from the entwined, dynamic flows of human and non-human materials in a process called making and, following Sheets-Johnstone (The primacy of movement (Vol. 82), 2011), contends that humans think in movement. The study that this paper draws on employs Ingold’s making to study students’ movement during mathematical problem solving. In this paper I also recruit Laban’s movement elements (Laban & Ullmann, 1966/2011) as a framework to describe and analyse how the body moves in space and time and to incorporate the often-forgotten dynamic qualities of movement. This paper investigates the movement of a small group of tertiary students as they engage with a mathematical prompt (a task in Abstract Algebra), using thick description, to answer the questions: (1) How do students think mathematically in movement? (2) How do Laban’s elements help inform research into students’ movement? Through the lens of Laban’s movement elements, my analysis demonstrates that students think mathematically in movement. These findings suggest that mathematics educators may be overlooking valuable instances of students’ mathematical thinking and knowing: the thinking and knowing in movement which may not be available through verbalizations or artefacts. Although thinking in movement does not fit a traditional conceptualization of undergraduate mathematics, which privileges written communication heavily reliant on notation, to understand students’ mathematical cognition more comprehensively, mathematics educators need to reconsider and appreciate students’ mathematical thinking in movement.","PeriodicalId":42532,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139582833","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}

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Development of Prospective Elementary Teachers´ Beliefs About Mathematics During Their First Semester at University, and the Impact of Inquiry-Based Tasks 未来小学教师大学第一学期数学信念的发展及探究式任务的影响

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International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Pub Date : 2023-12-12 DOI: 10.1007/s40753-023-00232-0

T. Weber, E. Rathgeb-Schnierer, A. Eichler

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