Evaluating ICT in mathematics teaching [PDF]
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel University.The challenge for educators is to prepare students for life in a technological advanced society that will continue to change exponentially.
Aqeel, Ebtisam
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A spotlight on mathematics education in the Netherlands and the central role of Realistic Mathematics Education [PDF]
In this introductory chapter I give a preview of the landscape of issues concerning mathematics education in the Netherlands and the role of Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) that one can come across in this volume, which contains the reflections of ...
Sub Mathematics Education +5 more
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EXAMINING HIGHER ORDER THINKING IN INDONESIAN LOWER SECONDARY MATHEMATICS CLASSROOMS [PDF]
Indonesian students’ poor performance in the mathematics test of PISA 2015 prompted the decision by the Ministry of Education of Indonesia to pay more attention to the integration of higher-order thinking (HOT) in the curricula starting in 2018. This new
Doorman, L.M. +4 more
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Integrating methods from IR and QA for geographic information retrieval [PDF]
This paper describes the participation of GIRSA at Geo- CLEF 2008, the geographic information retrieval task at CLEF. GIRSA combines information retrieval (IR) on geographically annotated data and question answering (QA) employing query decomposition ...
Hartrumpf, Sven +3 more
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Troubling "understanding mathematics-in-depth": Its role in the identity work of student-teachers in England [PDF]
Copyright @ The Author(s) 2013. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.comThis article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.In this paper, we focus on an initiative in England devised to prepare non ...
Adler, Jill +8 more
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James J. Kaput (1942–2005) imagineer and futurologist of mathematics education [PDF]
Jim Kaput lived a full life in mathematics education and we have many reasons to be grateful to him, not only for his vision of the use of technology in mathematics, but also for his fundamental humanity.
Tall, David
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Proposal of the CHS-qa expriment [PDF]
The CHS experiment program started in 1988, ten years before the LHD experiment began. The purpose of this experimental program was to conduct pioneering research to learn the device operation and to develop a good perspective of the research in ...
CHS-qa design team
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Digital technology in mathematics education: Why it works (or doesn't) [PDF]
The integration of digital technology confronts teachers, educators and researchers with many questions. What is the potential of ICT for learning and teaching, and which factors are decisive in making it work in the mathematics classroom? To investigate
Drijvers, Paul +3 more
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Making mathematics meaningful: Using student-initiated problems to situate mathematics [PDF]
Mathematics is everywhere-from the minute we open our eyes to check the alarm clock and calculate how many minutes extra we can afford to lie in bed, to measuring out our cereal for breakfast and estimating if we have enough petrol to make the 18 ...
Brough, Chris Jane, Calder, Nigel Stuart
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Students' perspectives on the nature of mathematics [PDF]
This paper reports on one small component of a much larger study that explored the perspectives of students towards mathematics learning. Students were asked “What do you think maths is all about?” Some students responded in terms of mathematical content.
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