Technology-based staff development helps teachers meet the demands of educating 21st-century students by supporting and encouraging teachers to integrate technology effectively into their curricula. The authors use online java applets as a staff development tool. The professional development model in this article provides just-in-time assistance as middle school teachers locate applets, integra...

Typical mathematics instruction involves blocked practice across a set of conceptually similar problems. Interleaving, or practice across a set of conceptually dissimilar problems, improves learning and transfer by repeatedly reloading information and increasing discrimination of problem features. Similarly, comparing problems across different contexts highlights relevant and irrelevant knowled...

In the first part of this article, we describe the basic objectives of the math curriculum in Spain as well as the basic contents, teacher resources, and obstacles perceived in mathematics instruction. Second, we briefly describe the concept of learning disabilities (LD) as they are currently defined in Spain. As stated in the recent educational reform, a student with LD is any student with spe...

Research on classroom discourse has long underscored the integral role of social interaction in learning, yet designing for and supporting meaningful classroom interaction often remains a challenge. This paper examines the ways that elementary school students are positioned and position themselves during activities aimed at promoting reflexivity about small-group math discussions. We examine on...

In this paper we explore the impact of an inter-classrooms math tournament implemented through internet. The strategy is to increase learning through intra-classroom collaboration generated by inter-classroom competition. Ten fourth grade classes with all their students from eight schools participated. During previous weeks students practiced on-line and played a cloud based board game designed...

There is an enormous amount of math resources on the web: http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk (a British site), http://www.mathe-online.at (Austrian), http://www.matheprisma. de (German), and the virtual community site http://planetmath.org, to mention a few. Of course, our research group also created content, for instance, material for learning fractions, algebra, combinatorics, and statistics. Within...

Is student learning enhanced when a math curriculum is revised using research-based principles? The National Center for Cognition and Mathematics Instruction, funded by the US Department of Education, aims to determine whether and how applying research to practice improves student outcomes. A full year of student and teacher materials for Grade 7 math were revised according to principles of vis...

Cognitive operations are supported by dynamically reconfiguring neural systems that integrate processing components widely distributed throughout the brain. The inter-neuronal connections that constitute these systems are powerfully shaped by environmental input. We evaluated the ability of computer-presented brain training games done in school to harness this neuroplastic potential and improve...

Justin Major is an Undergraduate Research Assistant in Engineering Education at the University of Nevada, Reno in the PRiDE Research Group. He is currently working towards dual Bachelors of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Secondary Math Education and expects to graduate May of 2017. His research interests include students development of self-efficacy and identity in math and engin...

The contribution describes the formulation of study activities within the selected LMS particular from the mathematical task point of view. The field activities are based primarily on tests drawn from the automatically generated online questions. The paper demonstrates solutions to several problems related to the creation of parameterized questions for the domain of math/science. These are main...