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Felix Lensing – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2024
Research in mathematics education constantly oscillates between theoretical or 'Is' questions and practical or 'Ought' questions: Researchers are not only pursuing theoretical questions by investigating what those involved in the teaching and learning of mathematics do, but they are also working on practical recommendations for what they ought to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Research, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Yusuke Uegatani; Hiroki Otani – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2023
This paper aims to reveal the potential of inferentialism, an emerging philosophy in mathematics education, to extend contemporary constructivist research regarding conceptual development. Going against the traditional view of a notion as the name of a corresponding concept and a constructivist way of naming second-order models, we provide a new…
Descriptors: Inferences, Constructivism (Learning), Mathematics Education, Educational Philosophy
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Dave Hewitt – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2024
The author has been influenced throughout his time in mathematics education by the work of Caleb Gattegno. Gattegno made extensive use of the word awareness whereas much educational literature from a psychological perspective talks about memory (for example, Justicia-Galiano, MartÌn-Puga, Linares & Pelegrina, 2017). This has, amongst other…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Memory, Mathematics Education
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Scheiner, Thorsten; Pinto, Marcia M. F. – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2022
Earlier approaches to sense-making in mathematics have looked at the ways students comprehend a mathematical concept. Recent research suggests that some students make sense not only of mathematical objects that have a being, but also of objects that have yet to become. In such cases, learning mathematics is not just an act of comprehending a given…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation, Learning Processes
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Ramírez, Paola – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2021
In this methodological paper, I present an enactivist approach to study how a student becomes coherently aware within a mathematics classroom, observing on the basis of my own observations of the learning of the students, acknowledging myself as part of the context, engaging with features of what I am seeing, demonstrating how through the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Learning Processes, Observation, Mathematics Skills
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Ana Patricia García-Amado; Maythe García-Rivero; José Luis Cruz-Canales; Rubén Abraham Moreno Segura; Asuman Oktaç – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2024
The aim of this study is to explore the possibility of introducing the general notions of function and inverse function through a mathematical activity on linear functions, focusing on the quantitative meaning associated to the connection between a relation and its inverse. We present a genetic decomposition, that is, a viable cognitive path for…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, High School Students, Student Attitudes
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Scheiner, Thorsten; Bowers, David M. – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2023
This paper problematizes the metaphors of unpacking, deconstructing, and decompressing mathematics that are prevalent in discourses about mathematics teacher knowledge. It is argued that the logic of these metaphors is based on the reversibility of packing, constructing, and compressing mathematics and seems to suggest the view that knowledge is…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Colonialism, Mathematics Teachers
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Swidan, Osama; Cusi, Annalisa; Robutti, Ornella; Arzarello, Ferdinando – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2023
This paper introduces a model built upon the Method of Varying Inquiry, offering a didactical approach to problem posing and solving activities that stimulates inquiry-based learning in mathematics classrooms. The model combines the inquiry-based framework with the variation theory and with specific didactical and theoretical elements (the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Guillemette, David; Dematte, Adriano – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2022
This paper is about the role and the potential of the history of mathematics in mathematics education. We report a discussion that we had about theoretical issues in this context, particularly about the notion of Otherness as developed by the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. The focus is on the reading of historical texts, both in the context…
Descriptors: Ethics, Educational Philosophy, Educational History, Mathematics Instruction
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Peck, Frederick A. – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2022
In this paper I analyze a problem solving event in a secondary mathematics classroom. As the event unfolds, the teachers, including me, understand the event as involving interactions that were not related to learning. By adopting an expansive view of learning, I advance a different interpretation, that the interactions tell a story of student…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Students, Learning Processes, Personal Autonomy
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Dooley, Thérèse; Grimes, Paul – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2023
In this article, we analyse a script of an imagined classroom interaction from the perspectives of politeness and positioning. The script was written by a prospective teacher, Cara, as part of her Lesson Play. The Lesson Play was prompted by her reflection on how the needs of students who are disaffected with mathematics might be met, an issue…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Classroom Communication, Lesson Plans, Preservice Teachers
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Lunney Borden, Lisa; Throop-Robinson, Evan; Carter, Ellen; Prosper, Suzanna – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2021
Building from the concept of verbing mathematics as a culturally consistent and enabling mathematics education practice for Mi'kmaw learners, the authors present an elementary multiplication lesson affectionately named "Sets of, Rows of, Jumps of". Through examination of this specific set of tasks emerging notions of structuring, play,…
Descriptors: Multiplication, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Students, Learning Processes
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Rumbelow, Michael – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2021
"Where Mathematics Comes From" (Lakoff & Núñez 2000) proposed that mathematical concepts such as arithmetic and counting are constructed cognitively from embodied metaphors of actions on physical objects, and four actions, or 'grounding metaphors' in particular: collecting, stepping, constructing and measuring. This article argues…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Figurative Language
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Morgan, Patricia; Abrahamson, Dor – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2016
We consider designs for conceptual learning where students first engage in pre-symbolic problem solving and then articulate their solutions formally. An enduring problem in these designs has been to support students in accessing their pre-conceptual situated process, so that they can reflect on it and couch it in mathematical form. Contemplative…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Problem Solving, Learning Processes, Reflection
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Lewis, Gareth – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2015
In this article, a case is made that affect is central in determining students' experience of learning or not learning mathematics. I show how reversal theory (Apter, 2001), and particularly its taxonomy of motivations and emotions, provides a basis for a thick description of students' experiences of learning in a mathematics classroom. Using data…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Learning Processes, Ethnography, Learning Theories
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