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Mitchell J. Nathan – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
In my Keynote Address to PME-NA 45, I offer an embodied framework for naming what makes mathematics powerful for mathematicians and scientists, yet intractable for many learners. The essential claim is this: Students reside in the Real World, where math is grounded, embodied and meaningful, while mathematics resides in the ungrounded, disembodied…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematical Enrichment, Mathematics Teachers, Problem Solving
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Mario de la Puente; Carlos de Oro; Jose Torres; Maria Ripoll; Heidy Rico Fontalvo – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2024
Over a sixteen-week term, the study dove into how chess could enhance math skills for eleventh graders at three public schools in Cartagena, Colombia. It assumed that chess would sharpen their minds and problem-solving prowess. Seventy-one pupils took part, trying out a chess-centric way of learning. Researchers used multiple statistical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 11, Mathematical Enrichment