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DeJarnette, Anna F.; González, Gloriana – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2015
Given the prominence of group work in mathematics education policy and curricular materials, it is important to understand how students make sense of mathematics during group work. We applied techniques from Systemic Functional Linguistics to examine how students positioned themselves during group work on a novel task in Algebra II classes. We…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Group Activities, Group Dynamics
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Battista, Michael T. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1999
Utilizes the psychological and sociocultural components of a constructivist paradigm to provide a detailed analysis of how the cognitive constructions students make as they enumerate 3D arrays of cubes develop and change in an inquiry-based, problem-centered mathematics classroom. Describes the classroom work of three pairs of 5th-grade students…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Constructivism (Learning), Cooperative Learning, Geometry