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Antonio Rivera-Figueroa; Ernesto Bravo-Díaz – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2024
In the mathematical literature on analytical geometry, various notions of the conics' eccentricity correspond to different approaches to these curves. After making a comparative analysis of well-known textbooks to determine coincidences and differences between the various concepts of eccentricity, as well as how the authors explain the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Teachers, Mathematics Education, Geometry
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Tarasenkova, N. A.; Akulenko, I. A. – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Teacher education has become an area of considerable interest among policymakers in many countries over recent years. Teacher's knowledge and skills in qualified teaching is of great importance. The main purpose was to study the level and depth of the school mathematics and related teaching knowledge attained by prospective Ukrainian secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Mathematics Instruction, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Stiegelmeyer, Cindy – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study surveyed 82 preservice elementary teachers using items from an instrument designed to predict student achievement based on a teacher's mathematics knowledge for teaching (MKT) in numbers and operations concepts. Additional mathematics beliefs items asked participants to rate their level of agreement with math myths and math anxiety…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Predictor Variables, Mathematics Achievement
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Wiest, Lynda R., Ed.; Lamberg, Teruni D., Ed. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2011
These Proceedings are a written record of the research presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA 2011) held in Reno, Nevada, October 20-23, 2011. The theme of the conference is Transformative Mathematics Teaching and Learning. The Proceedings…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Psychology, Teacher Expectations of Students, Mathematical Logic
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Feuerborn, Laura L.; Chinn, Donald; Morlan, Garvin – Professional Development in Education, 2009
This study is an evaluation on whether middle-level mathematics teachers' participation in a week-long in-service course on middle-level mathematics concepts increases their understanding of this content. A secondary purpose of this study is an exploration of teacher perceptions before and after the institute via self-report surveys. Participants…
Descriptors: Test Results, Mathematics Teachers, Probability, Teacher Attitudes
Hoines, Marit Johnsen, Ed.;; Fuglestad, Anne Berit, Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
This document contains the third volume of the proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics. Conference presentations are centered around the theme "Inclusion and Diversity". A total of 65 research reports are presented here: (1) A Teacher's Model of Students Algebraic Thinking…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Psychology