A model of instruction is a set of strategies that guide teachers in their instructional practice. The purpose of this paper is to dispel the myth that mathematics teaching in Singapore schools is all about drill and practice, as perceived of many Asian systems. This paper draws on data of a large project that examined the enactment of school…

High school students in today's modern educational system are expected by educational authorities to demonstrate mathematical proficiency in both procedural fluency and conceptual understanding. Since the shift to Common Core Mathematics, the focus of mathematical pedagogy has shifted from procedural to conceptual, presenting difficulty for…

Teaching and learning of integrated Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is a rapidly growing field of research with implications for both teachers and students. This qualitative research paper explores the lived experiences of STEM teachers in order to generate a model of engaging STEM tasks. Surveys and interviews with primary…

This paper reports on a study aiming at examining the effect of using digital concept maps in inquiry learning. Digital concept maps were asked to be created in different stages of the inquiry learning sessions to support their investigations. The participants were a total of 24, 10th-grade students enrolled in a chemistry course at a public high…

Adolescents in American classrooms are currently required to fulfill multiple roles, making them particularly vulnerable to stress due to intense academic demands and social pressures. This stress can be particularly challenging for adolescents who struggle with stress, anxiety, depression, and/or self-regulation. Previous research indicates a…

This paper uncovers the sustainability content in the science and mathematics curriculum of Qatar's K-12 public school system. It focuses on mapping the curriculum standards of both subjects against sustainable development goals (SDGs) and identifying the existing gap. The mapping, using a key-words approach, of sustainability concepts based on UN…

Researchers point out that more educational research is needed to study students' understanding of trigonometric topics. The present research attempts to study a group of three high-achieving eleventh grade students' realization of trigonometric words and narratives associated with the sine function. The learning of the students was video recorded…

Professional noticing is a specific set of skills that can be applied whether the teacher is in the process of formatively assessing or generally teaching a lesson. This article provides a framework for integrating professional noticing into teachers' practice as a means to support instructional decisions. An illustrative example is included based…

This study compares two hypnoteaching models used to teach students mathematics. Due to the increase in the use of these models, further vigorous studies are needed to verify their effects. This is a quasi-experiment research conducted to compare the use of the hypnoteaching model using three classes of students. The first, second, and third…

As argumentation is an activity at the heart of mathematics, (not only) German school curricula request students to construct mathematical arguments, which get evaluated by teachers. However, it remains unclear which criteria teachers use to decide on a specific grade in a summative assessment setting. In this paper, we draw on two sources for…

This short note presents and discusses an interesting area partition result related to a parallelogram. It is, then, shown how proving the result, and understanding why the result is true based on the principle of conservation of the area of triangles with the same base and between the same parallel lines, leads to further generalizations to…

Most prospective secondary mathematics teachers in the United States complete a course in real analysis, yet view the content as unrelated to their future teaching. We leveraged a theoretically-motivated instructional model to design modules for a real analysis course that could inform secondary teachers' actionable content knowledge and pedagogy.…

This paper shows the results of the epistemological and didactical analysis of the sense of variation of functions. Specifically, on the conceptions of growth and decay in a function that underlie the demonstrations of the theorem that links the sign of "f" with the sense of variation of "f". The epistemological approach…

Knowledge of probability is perceived as valuable in the 21st century. This knowledge enables people to understand and make informed decisions relating to uncertain events that occur in real life. Hence, many educational authorities have considered the inclusion of the teaching of probability important in their school curricula. This study…

Mathematics courses should prepare students to use mathematics in a range of contexts, including science. However, students often struggle in applying mathematics in physics courses, even when they understand the mathematical content (Rebello et al., 2007). Often the root of this struggle is attributed to the "student" or the…