Classroom-based interventions in mathematics education: relevance, significance, and applicability
نویسنده
چکیده
This special issue discusses various pedagogical innovations and myriad of significant findings. This commentary is not a synthesis of these contributions, but a summary of my own reflections on selected aspects of the nine papers comprising the special issue. Four themes subsume these reflections: (1) Gestural Communication (Alibali, Nathan, Church, Wolfgram, Kim and Knuth 2013); (2) Development of Ways of Thinking (Jahnke and Wambach 2013; Lehrer, Kobiela and Weinberg 2013; Mariotti 2013; Roberts and A. Stylianides 2013; ShillingTraina and G. Stylianides 2013; Tabach, Hershkowitz and Dreyfus 2013); (3) Learning Mathematics through Representation (Saxe, Diakow and Gearhart 2013); and (4) Challenges in Dialogic Teaching (Ruthven and Hofmann
منابع مشابه
The Effectiveness of Interventions to Increase Physical Activity: A Systematic Review - AJPM - recommendations
Overview: The Guide to Community Preventive Service’s methods for systematic reviews were used to evaluate the effectiveness of various approaches to increasing physical activity: informational, behavioral and social, and environmental and policy approaches. Changes in physical activity behavior and aerobic capacity were used to assess effectiveness. Two informational interventions (“point-of-d...
متن کاملRe-Examining the Socioeconomic Factors Affecting Technology Use in Mathematics Classroom Practices
AbstrAct Over the past 15 years a considerable amount of research has been devoted to study of the socioeconomic aspects that affect the use of economic aspects that affect the use of aspects that affect the use of technology in the mathematics classroom. With the call for curricular and instructional reform, educational institutions have embarked on the process to reform their educational prac...
متن کاملEvaluation of the Quality of Entrepreneurship Course Education Services Using SERVQUAL Model (Case Study: Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources)
It is important to pay attention to the quality and applicability of entrepreneurship courses for self-employment of students of agricultural sciences and natural resources in universities. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of entrepreneurship education services provided by students of Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. The statistical pop...
متن کاملCollaborative Music to Motivate Mathematics Learning
Mathematics education has had a history of problems with both motivation and applicability in a child’s life. Recently, it has been shown that issues such as cultural relevance can make a significant learning difference in other areas, such as reading. Music is one way in which to solve the problems of motivation and significance, while also retaining a connection to math and the learning of it...
متن کاملEnhancing the connection between the classroom and the clinical workplace: A systematic review
INTRODUCTION Although medical students are increasingly exposed to clinical experiences as part of their training, these often occur parallel with, rather than connected to, their classroom-based learning experiences. Additionally, students seem to struggle with spontaneously making the connection between these spheres of their training themselves. Therefore, this systematic review synthesized ...
متن کامل