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Release Date: July 1, 2008
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Release Date: July 1, 2008
According to NCTM’s Principles and Standards for School mathematics, "Technology is essential in teaching and learning of mathematics; it influences the mathematics that is taught and it enhances students’ learning.” How does research inform this clarion call for technology in mathematics teaching...
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Release Date: July 1, 2008
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Release Date: July 1, 2008
(Published in Cooperation with the National Council of Teacher of Mathematics) According to NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, "Technology is essential in teaching and learning of mathematics; it influences the mathematics that is taught and it enhances students' learning." How...
Cultural Psychology and Its Future
Complementarity in a New Key
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Cultural Psychology is a radical new look in psychology that studies how persons and socialcultural worlds mutually constitute one another. With the increase of globalization and multicultural exchanges, cultural psychology becomes the psychological science for the 21st century. Encounters with others...
by Nathalie Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
This volume investigates the evolution of the geometry curriculum in the United States over the past 150 years. A primary goal is to increase awareness of the shape and nature of the current geometry curriculum by explaining how things have come to be as they are. Given the limited access to firsthand...
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Release Date: July 1, 2012
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Release Date: July 1, 2012
The interaction of the history of mathematics and mathematics education has long been construed as an esoteric area of inquiry. Much of the research done in this realm has been under the auspices of the history and pedagogy of mathematics group. However there is little systematization or consolidation...
Interdisciplinarity for the 21st Century
Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Mathematics and its connections to the Arts and Sciences, Moncton 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Interdisciplinarity has become increasingly important for emergent professions of the 21st century yet there is a dearth of systematic studies aimed at implementing it in the school and university curricula. The Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences (MACAS ) group places Mathematics...
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Release Date: March 1, 2008
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Release Date: March 1, 2008
The name of Zoltan P. Dienes (1916) stands with those of Jean Piaget and Jerome Bruner as a legendary figure whose theories of learning have left a lasting impression on the field of mathematics education. Dienes' name is synonymous with the Multibase blocks (also known as Dienes blocks) which he invented...
The First Sourcebook on Nordic Research in Mathematics Education
Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark and contributions from Finland
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The First Sourcebook on Nordic Research in Mathematics Education: Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark and contributions from Finland provides the first comprehensive and unified treatment of historical and contemporary research trends in mathematics education in the Nordic world. The book is organized in...
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Release Date: December 1, 2007
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Release Date: December 1, 2007
International Perspectives and Research on Social Justice in Mathematics Education is the highly acclaimed inaugural monograph of The Montana Mathematics Enthusiast now available through IAP. The book covers prescient social, political and ethical issues for the domain of education in general and...
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Release Date: September 1, 2008
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Release Date: September 1, 2008
The book is based on the recently held Symposium on mathematics and its connections to the arts and sciences, namely the second Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences (MACAS2)Symposium in Odense, Denmark (May 2931, 2007). The chapters are an eclectic collection of interdisciplinary...
Abstracts of The First Sourcebook on Asian Research in Mathematics Education
China, Korea, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia and India
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Mathematics and Science education have both grown in fertile directions in different geographic regions. Yet, the mainstream discourse in international handbooks does not lend voice to developments in cognition, curriculum, teacher development, assessment, policy and implementation of mathematics and...
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Release Date: September 1, 2008
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Release Date: September 1, 2008
Our innovative spirit and creativity lies beneath the comforts and security of today's technologically evolved society. Scientists, inventors, investors, artists and leaders play a vital role in the advancement and transmission of knowledge. Mathematics, in particular, plays a central role in numerous...
Evaluating Technology in Teacher Education
Lessons From the Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers for Technology (PT3) Program
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Overall we come away from this project with a renewed sense of the complexity of evaluating the implementation and impact of technology in teacher education. In the postPT3 period the federal government turned to largescale experimental and quasiexperimental evaluations of educational technology but...
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Release Date: June 1, 2012
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Release Date: June 1, 2012
This edited volume explores various issues pertaining to the education of children with disabilities in Africa, the Caribbean and Middle East. As a group, persons with disabilities have been subjected to social, cultural and educational exclusions of various forms and for various sociallyscripted reasons....