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From Informal to Formal Understandings: Analysing the Development of Proportional Reasoning and its Retention
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Rukiye Ayan-Civak; Mine Isiksal-Bostan; Seçil Yemen-Karpuzcu – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2024
This study is a case study within a three-year-long design research study. The purposes of this study are twofold. The first purpose includes investigating whether there is a significant difference in seventh-grade students' proportional reasoning skills before and after a teaching experiment conducted in line with the perspectives of Hypothetical…
Descriptors: Retention (Psychology), Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Tests
Improving the Pedagogy of Islamic Religious Education through an Application of Critical Religious Education, Variation Theory and the Learning Study Model
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Demirel Ucan, Ayse; Wright, Andrew – British Journal of Religious Education, 2019
This study presents a new theoretical and pedagogical framework based on the theories of Critical Religious Education (CRE), Variation Theory (VT) and the Learning Study model with the purpose of improving teaching and learning in Islamic Religious Education (IRE). It reports a Learning Study conducted in a secondary girls Muslim school in London…
Descriptors: Islam, Religious Education, Instructional Improvement, Foreign Countries
Facilitating Genuine Discourse: Effective Practices of an Expert Teacher
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Akyuz, Didem – Teacher Education and Practice, 2012
Supporting a productive discourse is an important element of reform teaching, as it gives students opportunities to understand mathematical reasoning. In this study, the practices of an expert seventh-grade mathematics teacher are described to illustrate how she created and sustained a genuine mathematical discourse environment during the teaching…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Role, Facilitators (Individuals)
The Constructivist Mathematics Classroom
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Jones, Karrie; Jones, Jennifer L.; Vermette, Paul J. – Mathematics Teaching, 2010
By examining how people learn, the educational theories of Dewey, Piaget, Vygotsky and Bruner can be synthesized to give this set of core Constructivist principles. Principles of effective mathematics teaching: (1) allows learning that is "active" and "reflective". Students are required to transfer key concepts to new situations; (2) allows…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Theories, Prior Learning, Scientific Concepts