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Viirman, Olov – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2014
This paper addresses a topic within university mathematics education which has been somewhat underexplored: the teaching practices actually used by university mathematics teachers when giving lectures. The study investigates the teaching practices of seven Swedish university teachers on the topic of functions using a discursive approach, the…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, College Faculty
Österholm, Magnus – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2012
This study focuses on a distinction between process- and object-oriented discourses when characterising the discourse of university students' summaries of lectures and examining connections between students' discourse and the discourse of lectures. Results show that students' discourse in general tends to be process-oriented, by their use of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Lecture Method, Comparative Analysis