Author: Donald Patrick KinneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Graphic calculators
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The Effect of Graphing Calculator Use and the Lesh Translation Model on Student Understanding of the Graphical Relationship Between Function and Derivative in a Nonrigorous Calculus Course
Author: Donald Patrick KinneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Graphic calculators
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The Effect of Emphasizing Multiple Representations on Calculus Student's Understanding of the Derivative Concept
Author: Sonja Lee GoerdtDissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Wandering Significance
Author: Mark WilsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199532303
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
"Mark Wilson presents a highly original and broad-ranging investigation of the way we get to grips with the world conceptually, and the way that philosophical problems commonly arise from this. He combines traditional philosophical concerns about human conceptual thinking with illuminating data derived from a large variety of fields including physics and applied mathematics, cognitive psychology, and linguistics. Wandering Significance offers abundant new insights and perspectives for philosophers of language, mind, and science, and will also reward the interest of psychologists, linguists, and anyone curious about the mysterious ways in which useful language obtains its practical applicability."--Publisher's description.
Radical Constructivism in Mathematics Education
Author: E. GlasersfeldPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0306472015
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Mathematics is the science of acts without things - and through this, of things one can define by acts. 1 Paul Valéry The essays collected in this volume form a mosaik of theory, research, and practice directed at the task of spreading mathematical knowledge. They address questions raised by the recurrent observation that, all too frequently, the present ways and means of teaching mathematics generate in the student a lasting aversion against numbers, rather than an understanding of the useful and sometimes enchanting things one can do with them. Parents, teachers, and researchers in the field of education are well aware of this dismal situation, but their views about what causes the wide-spread failure and what steps should be taken to correct it have so far not come anywhere near a practicable consensus. The authors of the chapters in this book have all had extensive experience in teaching as well as in educational research. They approach the problems they have isolated from their own individual perspectives. Yet, they share both an overall goal and a specific fundamental conviction that characterized the efforts about which they write here. The common goal is to find a better way to teach mathematics. The common conviction is that knowledge cannot simply be transferred ready-made from parent to child or from teacher to student but has to be actively built up by each learner in his or her own mind.
Learning from Computers: Mathematics Education and Technology
Author: Christine Keitel-KreidtPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783540572770
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Mathematics Education and Technology was held in Villard-de-Lans, France, between May 6 and 11, 1993. Organised on the initiative of the BaCoMET (Basic Components of Mathematics Education for Teachers) group (Christiansen, Howson and Otte 1986; Bishop, Mellin-Olsen and van Dormolen 1991), the workshop formed part of a larger NATO programme on Advanced Educational Technology. Some workshop members had already participated in earlier events in this series and were able to contribute insights from them: similarly some members were to take part in later events. The problematic for the workshop drew attention to important speculative developments in the applications of advanced information technology in mathematics education over the last decade, notably intelligent tutoring, geometric construction, symbolic algebra and statistical analysis. Over the same period, more elementary forms of information technology had started to have a significant influence on teaching approaches and curriculum content: notably arithmetic and graphic calculators; standard computer tools, such as spreadsheets and databases; and computer-assisted learning packages and computer microworlds specially designed for educational purposes.
Symbols, Computation, and Intentionality
Author: Steven HorstPublisher: Steven Horst
ISBN: 0984017631
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Combinatorics and Reasoning
Author: Carolyn A. MaherPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400706154
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Combinatorics and Reasoning: Representing, Justifying and Building Isomorphisms is based on the accomplishments of a cohort group of learners from first grade through high school and beyond, concentrating on their work on a set of combinatorics tasks. By studying these students, the editors gain insight into the foundations of proof building, the tools and environments necessary to make connections, activities to extend and generalize combinatoric learning, and even explore implications of this learning on the undergraduate level. This volume underscores the power of attending to basic ideas in building arguments; it shows the importance of providing opportunities for the co-construction of knowledge by groups of learners; and it demonstrates the value of careful construction of appropriate tasks. Moreover, it documents how reasoning that takes the form of proof evolves with young children and discusses the conditions for supporting student reasoning.
Statistical Mechanics of Charged Particles
Author: Radu BalescuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Windows on Mathematical Meanings
Author: Richard NossPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400916965
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book challenges some of the conventional wisdoms on the learning of mathematics. The authors use the computer as a window onto mathematical meaning-making. The pivot of their theory is the idea of webbing, which explains how someone struggling with a new mathematical idea can draw on supportive knowledge, and reconciles the individual's role in mathematical learning with the part played by epistemological, social and cultural forces.