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Andrew Kercher; Anna Marie Bergman; Rina Zazkis – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2025
Research indicates that investigating phenomena, rather than reproducing facts, should be a core experience in the education of prospective mathematics teachers. Corresponding with its centrality to quality teacher education, there are multiple existing methodologies for analyzing the effects of investigation tasks on teachers' mathematical…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Investigations, Problem Solving
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Visnovska, Jana; Cobb, Paul – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2019
We report on five-year professional development collaboration with a group of middle-school mathematics teachers during which their views of what constitutes a productive classroom statistical activity changed. The teachers' statistics instruction was initially typical in the US context and focused on producing calculations and following…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Change, Statistics, Mathematics Activities
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Madden, Sandra R. – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2011
Recent studies have highlighted the potential importance of informal inferential reasoning (IIR) in supporting learners' general statistical reasoning. This paper presents a framework based on a retrospective analysis of design research in the context of technology-rich statistical professional learning experiences for high school mathematics…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Abstract Reasoning, Mathematics Teachers, Secondary School Teachers