PDP/Academic Excellence Workshops in Mathematics

Exploring Excellence and Equity within Canadian Mathematics Classrooms

In an attempt to understand the processes that allow all students to successfully learn mathematics this paper conceptualizes a successful mathematics classroom in terms of excellence in mathematics and how equitably achievement is distributed. The study employs multilevel models and the Canadian data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study to identify the characteristics of ...

Revision workshops in elementary mathematics enhance student performance in routine laboratory calculations.

The ability to understand and implement calculations required for molarity and dilution computations that are routinely undertaken in the laboratory are essential skills that should be possessed by all students entering an undergraduate Life Sciences degree. However, it is increasingly recognized that the majority of these students are ill equipped to reliably carry out such calculations. There...

Title Educational technology training workshops for mathematics teachers: An exploration of perception changes

Ensuring excellence in centers of excellence programs.

Studies have found associations between better outcomes and a variety of structural and process criteria that help explain the wide outcome variations that occur across hospitals. In response, Centers of Excellence programs have been developed by multiple third parties. Despite this, programs have yielded disappointing results and can have unintended consequences. To outweigh potential harms, o...

Book Review: How the Other Half Thinks: Adventures in Mathematical Reasoning and Mathematics Galore! Masterclasses, Workshops, and Team Projects in Mathematics and Its Applications, Volume 49, Number 8

How does it happen that there are people who do not understand mathematics? If mathematics invokes only the rules of logic, such as are accepted by all normal minds; if its evidence is based on principles common to all men, and that none could deny it without being mad, how does it come about that so many persons are here refractory?...[T]hat not everyone can understand mathematical reasoning w...