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Close-to-practice classroom research by way of Vygotskian units of analysis

2012-02-07

This paper discusses the potential of units of analysis deployed in classroom studies across grades 4-6, 7-9 and the gymnaisum. Following Vygotskian methodology these units enable access to the living whole of classroom phenomenon being studied, shedding light on educational practices in a historical and longitudinal manner. Adopting a theory/practice approach allows for various manner of researcher involvement in these studies: participant observation, researcher guidance of specific students, teacher-driven collaboration leading to action research and the ability of research(er) to addres...

Excavation

2012-02-06

One problem, nine student-produced proofs

2012-02-01

The context of this paper is a project aimed at meeting the challenges of teaching an introduction-to-proof course at our own institutions. These courses are typically taken by second year students intending to major in mathematics or computer science and are taught in sections of 15 to 24 students. These students benefit from being given the freedom to explore different methods of proof without the presumption that they will use a certain method.  This is the story of how what could have been a routine, closed problem became an open one.

Intentions with and interpretations of the concept of problem

2012-01-20

Relating vocabulary in mathematical tasks to aspects of reading and solving

2012-01-20

This paper focuses on relationships between vocabulary in mathematical tasks and aspects of reading and solving these tasks. The paper contains a framework that highlights a number of different aspects of word difficulty as well as many issues to consider when planning and implementing empirical studies concerning vocabulary in tasks, where the aspect of common/uncommon words is one important part. The paper also presents an empirical method where corpora are used to investigate issues of vocabulary in mathematical tasks. The results from the empirical study show that there are connections ...

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