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Wilson, P. Holt; Edgington, Cyndi; Webb, Jared; Sztajn, Paola – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2015
In this mixed methods study, we use positioning theory to analyze teachers' professional discussions about students' mathematical work over the course of 60 hours of professional development focusing on a learning trajectory. After identifying a category of speech actions that suggested student learning is limited by their age or grade level, a…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Mathematics Instruction, Faculty Development, Prior Learning
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Hohensee, Charles – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2012
In this report, I examine what students noticed as they participated in an instructional unit on quadratic functions and how a shift in what they noticed was conceptually connected to productive changes in their prior knowledge about linear functions. My results show that, over the course of the instructional unit, students' attention shifted…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Attention, Mathematical Concepts, Prior Learning