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Waswa, Anne N.; Moore, Kevin C. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2020
Research in mathematics education has overlooked creativity in mathematics, partially because of a lack of an accepted definition of mathematical creativity. The present study investigates elementary pre-service teachers' (PSTs') conceptions of creativity in teaching and learning mathematics. Data were collected using observations and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Creativity
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Moore, Kevin C.; Silverman, Jason – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2015
Conventions play an important communicative role in mathematics. Likely due to the complex relationship between conventions and school mathematics, few education researchers have questioned or investigated the consequences of instruction and curricula that primarily, if not unquestionably, maintain conventions. Drawing on Piagetian notions of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Traditionalism, Student Experience, Educational Opportunities