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Amelia Gorman – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2024
Decimals and the related areas of ratio and proportion are recognised as one of the most challenging and complex areas of mathematics for young children to learn. In this study, four dynamic digital representations were used by Year 4 (9-10 years old) students in a set of video-recorded, individual task-based interviews to explore key concepts of…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Mathematical Concepts, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students
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Robutti, Ornella; Prodromou, Theodosia; Aldon, Gilles – Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education, 2021
Meaning Equivalence Reusable Learning Objects (MERLO) items are a new kind of didactical tool that can be designed by teachers and used in classes, in tasks aimed at engaging students in deep reasoning, exploring and arguing about mathematical concepts. The interactions across communities of mathematics teachers and educators in on-line…
Descriptors: Resource Units, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Ponce Campuzano, Juan Carlos; Matthews, Kelly E.; Adams, Peter – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2018
In this paper, we report on an experimental activity for discussing the concepts of speed, instantaneous speed and acceleration, generally introduced in first year university courses of calculus or physics. Rather than developing the ideas of calculus and using them to explain these basic concepts for the study of motion, we led 82 first year…
Descriptors: Mathematics, History, College Freshmen, College Science
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Eickelmann, Birgit; Gerick, Julia; Koop, Christian – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
By means of an international comparison, the research presented in the article aims to identify supporting and hindering school level factors for the use of ICT in secondary school mathematics lessons. The relationship between ICT use and the performance of Grade 9 students in mathematics is examined and further integrated into a multi-level model…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Secondary School Mathematics
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Watson, Jane M.; English, Lyn D. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2016
As an extension to an activity introducing Year 5 students to the practice of statistics, the software "TinkerPlots" made it possible to collect repeated random samples from a finite population to informally explore students' capacity to begin reasoning with a distribution of sample statistics. This article provides background for the…
Descriptors: Sampling, Statistics, Mathematics Instruction, Computer Uses in Education
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Muir, Tracey; Callingham, Rosemary; Beswick, Kim – Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 2016
This article presents a case study of one particular lesson in which a teacher uses the features of an interactive whiteboard (IWB) to teach mental computation strategies to a Grade 1 class. The framework of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) is used to evaluate the teacher's use of the IWB to teach mathematical concepts to young…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Grade 1, Mathematics Instruction, Technological Literacy
Cameron, Scott; Ball, Lynda – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2015
This paper reports on a study of choices about the use of a computer algebra system (CAS) or pen-and-paper (p&p) by a class of seven Year 11 Mathematical Methods (CAS) students as they completed a calculus worksheet. Factors that influenced students' choices are highlighted by comparing and contrasting the use of CAS and p&p between…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Mathematics
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Tobin, Patrick C.; Weiss, Vida – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2016
The use of handheld CAS technology in undergraduate mathematics courses in Australia is paradoxically shrinking under sustained disapproval or disdain from the professional mathematics community. Mathematics education specialists argue with their mathematics colleagues over a range of issues in course development and this use of CAS or even…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics
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Nolan, Caroline; Herbert, Sandra – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2015
The introduction of linear functions is the turning point where many students decide if mathematics is useful or not. This means the role of parameters and variables in linear functions could be considered to be "threshold concepts". There is recognition that linear functions can be taught in context through the exploration of linear…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Mathematical Models, Mathematics Instruction, Calculators
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Zuber, Edward Nordin; Anderson, Judy – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2013
Studies of one-to-one programs consistently report lower use of laptops in mathematics classrooms compared to other subjects but do not elaborate reasons for these observations. This mixed-method study investigated the experiences and beliefs of 28 mathematics teachers at five secondary schools during the second year of the New South Wales Digital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Techniques, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers
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Pierce, Robyn; Bardini, Caroline – Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, 2015
Since the 1990s, computer algebra systems (CAS) have been available in Australia as hand-held devices designed for students with the expectation that they will be used in the mathematics classroom. The data discussed in this paper was collected as part of a pilot study that investigated first year university mathematics and statistics students'…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Algebra, Computer Uses in Education
Gough, John – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2012
Space-filling curves are related to fractals, in that they have self-similar patterns. Such space-filling curves were originally developed as conceptual mathematical "monsters", counter-examples to Weierstrassian and Reimannian treatments of calculus and continuity. These were curves that were everywhere-connected but…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education
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Hunting, Robert P.; Mousley, Judith A.; Perry, Bob – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2012
The project "Mathematical Thinking of Preschool Children in Rural and Regional Australia: Research and Practice" aimed to investigate views of preschool practitioners about young children's mathematical thinking and development. Structured individual interviews were conducted with 64 preschool practitioners from rural areas of three…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Preschool Children, Rural Schools
Fitzallen, Noleine – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2012
Students' development of an understanding of covariation was the focus of a research project that investigated the way in which 12 Year 5/6 students engaged with the learning environment afforded by the graphing software, "TinkerPlots." Using data generated from individual interviews, the results demonstrate that upper primary students…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Computer Software, Graphs, Mathematics Instruction
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Tindall-Ford, Sharon; Agostinho, Shirley; Bokosmaty, Sahar; Paas, Fred; Chandler, Paul – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
This research investigated the viability of learning by self-managing split-attention worked examples as an alternative to learning by studying instructor-managed integrated worked examples. Secondary school students learning properties of angles on parallel lines were taught to integrate spatially separated text and diagrammatic information by…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Geometry, Computer Uses in Education, Self Management
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