NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Reid, David A. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2011
This article reviews some key ideas about the nature of proof, kinds of proofs, and the way of reasoning called proving. This provides background for a discussion of the teaching of proof, in which some important aspects of teaching that support students' proving are described, and the ideas of a tool-box of accepted premises and local…
Descriptors: Validity, Mathematical Logic, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Stewart, Victoria C.; Schlemper, Beth; Shetty, Sujata; Czajkowski, Kevin – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Student participation in real-world problems promotes "a sense of their own agency andcollective capacity to alter their neighbourhoods or communities for the better" (Smith, 2007).This paper describes student engagement in a two-week summer workshop conducted in June2016, where they used geospatial technologies and community mapping to…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Place Based Education, Geographic Information Systems, Spatial Ability
Hunter, Jodie – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2012
This paper reports on the use of lesson study as a professional development tool. In particular the paper focuses on the way in which the teachers increased their understanding of how tasks, classroom activity and teacher actions scaffolded student learning of early algebraic reasoning of equivalence and the commutative principle. Teacher voice is…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Teaching, Faculty Development