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Lecturers' use of questions in undergraduate mathematics lectures 讲师在本科数学授课中使用问题的情况
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Journal of Mathematical Behavior Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmathb.2024.101190
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Creating and sharing linear algebra metaphors as an assessment for engaging students beyond the cognitive domain 创建和分享线性代数隐喻，将其作为吸引学生参与认知领域以外活动的一种评估方法
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Journal of Mathematical Behavior Pub Date : 2024-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmathb.2024.101189
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Secondary teachers’ guided reinvention of the definitions of reducible and irreducible elements 中学教师在指导下重塑可还原和不可还原元素的定义
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Journal of Mathematical Behavior Pub Date : 2024-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmathb.2024.101188
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Engagement with student written work as an instantiation of and proxy for how college calculus instructors engage with student thinking 参与学生的书面作业，作为大学微积分教师如何参与学生思维的实例和代表
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Journal of Mathematical Behavior Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmathb.2024.101187
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Developing (Pedagogical) content knowledge of constant rate of change: The case of Samantha 发展有关恒定变化率的（教学）内容知识：萨曼莎的案例
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Journal of Mathematical Behavior Pub Date : 2024-08-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmathb.2024.101179
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Use of mathematical problems rooted in primary historical sources to reveal preservice teachers’ mathematical content knowledge 利用源于原始史料的数学问题揭示职前教师的数学内容知识
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Journal of Mathematical Behavior Pub Date : 2024-08-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmathb.2024.101177
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Does use of a hypothetical learning progression promote learning of the cardinal-count concept and give-n performance? 使用假定的学习进度是否能促进对心算概念的学习并提高学习成绩？
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Journal of Mathematical Behavior Pub Date : 2024-08-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmathb.2024.101178
{"title":"Does use of a hypothetical learning progression promote learning of the cardinal-count concept and give-n performance?","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jmathb.2024.101178","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jmathb.2024.101178","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The general aim of the research was to conduct a rare test of the efficacy of hypothetical learning progressions (HLPs) and a basic assumption of basing instruction on HLPs, namely teaching each successive level is more efficacious than skipping lower levels and teaching the target level directly. The specific aim was evaluating whether counting-based cardinality concepts unfold in a stepwise manner. The research involved a pretest—delayed-posttest design with random assignment of 14 preschoolers to two conditions. The experimental intervention was based on an HLP for cardinality development (first promoting levels that presumably support and are necessary for the target level and then the target knowledge). The active-control treatment entailed a Teach-to-Target approach (first promoting irrelevant cardinality knowledge about recognizing written numbers and then directly teaching the same target-level goals with the same explicit instruction and similar games). A mix of quantitative and qualitative analyses indicated HLP participants performed significantly and substantially better than Teach-to-Target participants on target-level concept and skill measures. Moreover, the former tended to make sensible errors, whereas the latter generally responded cluelessly.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47481,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mathematical Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142058329","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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Introduction to the virtual special issue: Mathematics that underpins social issues 虚拟特刊简介：支撑社会问题的数学
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Journal of Mathematical Behavior Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmathb.2024.101176
{"title":"Introduction to the virtual special issue: Mathematics that underpins social issues","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jmathb.2024.101176","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jmathb.2024.101176","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This Virtual Special Issue on <em>Mathematics in Society: Exploring the Mathematics that Underpins Social Issues</em> features 13 articles which expand our understanding of how people build, retain, communicate, apply, and comprehend mathematical ideas as they relate to social and societal issues. The focus is on education research that explores the ways in which mathematics and a mathematical worldview can influence choices, on educational, personal and societal levels. We take a broad view and raise questions about what it means to be mathematical in society, and we consider the multifaceted ways in which abilities to derive and interpret information presented mathematically are also necessary in and for society.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47481,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mathematical Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732312324000531/pdfft?md5=4975a2f50fd35144526bbe438543d68c&pid=1-s2.0-S0732312324000531-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141638374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Preparing elementary pre-service teachers to teach early algebra: A conceptual replication study 培养小学职前教师教授早期代数：概念复制研究
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Journal of Mathematical Behavior Pub Date : 2024-06-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmathb.2024.101174
Charles Hohensee , Vahid Borji
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New kinds of embodied interactions that arise in augmented reality dynamic geometry software 增强现实动态几何软件中出现的新型体现式互动
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Journal of Mathematical Behavior Pub Date : 2024-06-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmathb.2024.101175
Candace Walkington , Mitchell J. Nathan , Jonathan Hunnicutt , Julianna Washington , Monique Zhou
{"title":"New kinds of embodied interactions that arise in augmented reality dynamic geometry software","authors":"Candace Walkington ,&nbsp;Mitchell J. Nathan ,&nbsp;Jonathan Hunnicutt ,&nbsp;Julianna Washington ,&nbsp;Monique Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.jmathb.2024.101175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmathb.2024.101175","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Dynamic geometry software (DGS) has long been studied in mathematics education as a way for students to explore and interact with geometric objects and figures. Recent advances in Augmented Reality (AR) technologies that allow dynamic three-dimensional mathematical objects to appear in students’ environment as holograms have changed the nature of what is possible for a DGS, particularly with respect to embodiment. New forms of embodied interactions may arise in AR-based DGS, as students gesture and move their bodies through their environment, taking different perspectives to interact with these immersive shapes projected in three dimensions. In the present study, we examine videos of 28 high school students interacting with an AR-based version of the DGS GeoGebra, while wearing the Microsoft HoloLens 2 headsets. We document the novel kinds of embodied interactions that the AR environment affords, relating to (1) perspective and orientation, (2) scale, (3) three dimensions. Based on our analysis, we give important directions for future research on DGS and implications for the design of the next generation of holographic DGS.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47481,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mathematical Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S073231232400052X/pdfft?md5=52834f5c84f9c81469fd3a2de5c68290&pid=1-s2.0-S073231232400052X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141479172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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