Achieving meaningful educational outcomes requires scalable strategies for mastering mathematical concepts and skills, with student engagement at the core. This paper examines the use of comprehensive, technology-enhanced activities designed to promote active learning and deeper conceptual understanding. Specifically, it focuses on the integration…

This research aims to conduct a fixed-effects meta-analysis to unpack the causal role of music interventions on mathematics achievement. Findings indicated that music interventions had a small to moderate positive effect on mathematics achievement (N = 77,595, k = 245, g = 0.36, p < 0.01, 95% CI [0.34, 0.38]). Mathematics skills, instructional…

Problem-solving before instruction has been shown to be a more effective learning design than traditional tell-and-practice for several mathematical concepts at the secondary school level. In particular, the more a problem-solving before instruction design follows the productive failure principles, such as comparing and contrasting…

Children's foundational mathematical skills are critical for future academic attainment. While home mathematical activities (HMAs) have been proposed to support these skills, the extent to which engaging in them supports mathematical skills remains unclear. This preregistered systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis identified 351 effect…

Teaching in the prison context is characterized by a high complexity level; it is a multifaced activity influenced by several factors depending on the specific context. We present a preliminary but overall picture of schooling in Italian prisons by considering teachers' reflections regarding their experiences in teaching mathematics in…

Design-based research (DBR) develops interventions and associated local theories about ways of supporting students' learning of particular mathematical topics through iterative cycles of empirical investigation and retrospective analysis. Although DBR has been conducted in mathematics education for various topics and at different educational…

Xeno means strange, alien, guest, or outsider. The term xenomathematics references non-human or more-than-human mathematics, be it alien or earthbound. By using xenomathematics to frame mathematical activity writ large, we can push back at the human exceptionalism that continues to inform much of the work done in the name of ethnomathematics and…

Mathematical problem posing, a form of authentic mathematical inquiry and creation, has been acknowledged as important by educators and curriculum frameworks internationally and has been the focus of several intervention studies with students and teachers. However, the intervention components and measured outcomes of these prior studies varied,…

The efficacy of mathematics interventions for students with mathematics difficulties is a critical concern in educational research, particularly in light of the increasing demand for effective instructional strategies. While previous meta-analyses have explored various aspects of mathematics interventions, our study uniquely focuses on a broad…

This paper describes a project assigned in a multivariable calculus course. The project showcases many fundamental concepts studied in a typical course, including the distance formula, equations of lines and planes, intersection of planes, Lagrange multipliers, integrals in both Cartesian and polar coordinates, parametric equations, and arc length.

This research centers on implementing Quantitative Reasoning (QR) within a differential equations course at an urban public community college. As a participant in the Numeracy Infusion for College Educators (NICE) faculty development program, I sought to integrate QR skills into my curriculum. Students in the course were introduced to QR goals…

In this paper, we examine learning experiences of 11 students in Ghana who were taught mathematics in the English language high school system and who thereafter did not attain the pass mark in their national final mathematics exam. They however went on to pass this exam after using an app that teaches mathematics in Ghanaian languages. We view our…

The current meta-analysis quantifies the average effect of worked examples on mathematics performance from elementary grades to postsecondary settings and to assess what moderates this effect. Though thousands of worked examples studies have been conducted to date, a corresponding meta-analysis has yet to be published. Exclusionary coding was…

There is a strong relationship between the quality of education, teachers' decisions and instructional actions, and knowledge. All of them have an important role outcome of the lesson and students' learning. The focus of this study was to discover how the process of students' learning or incapability of learning was affected by teaching practices.…

In the current article, the authors outline ways for early childhood educators, such as general and special education teachers, district math coaches, and other personnel involved with school- and district-level math initiatives, to engage caregivers in home math activities, with a focus on concepts already taught in school and aligned with…