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View article: Unleashing creativity in STEM teacher education through scripting task pedagogy
Unleashing creativity in STEM teacher education through scripting task pedagogy Open
This paper proposes a creative pedagogical approach that aims to foster authentic STEM teacher education through incorporating scriptwriting tasks in science and mathematics courses for future secondary STEM teachers. These tasks invite te…
View article: An Ode to a Mathematician: Commemorating Uri Leron
An Ode to a Mathematician: Commemorating Uri Leron Open
This is one of two contributions written to commemorate Professor Uri Leron, who became Associate Editor of what was then the International Journal for Computers and Mathematical Learning, a journal founded by Seymour Papert, and upon whic…
View article: Mathematics Teachers in Collaboration: A Commentary
Mathematics Teachers in Collaboration: A Commentary Open
Having read all the chapters in the volume "Teachers of mathematics working and learning in collaborative groups" based on ICMI Study 25, I can summarise my reaction in a few words: I am overwhelmed. As chapters that report the activity of…
View article: On Convincing Power of Counterexamples
On Convincing Power of Counterexamples Open
Despite plethora of research that attends to the convincing power of different types of proofs, research related to the convincing power of counterexamples is rather slim. In this paper we examine how prospective and practicing secondary s…
View article: Encounters With “Love and Math” A Belated Review of Edward Frenkel’s Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
Encounters With “Love and Math” A Belated Review of Edward Frenkel’s Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality Open
In “Love and Math” the author intertwines his personal experiences as a student of mathematics and as a research mathematician with an exposition of modern mathematics, focusing on its elegance and beauty. Much is said in previous reviews …
View article: A study of future physics teachers’ knowledge for teaching: A case of a decibel sound level scale
A study of future physics teachers’ knowledge for teaching: A case of a decibel sound level scale Open
This study examines the knowledge for teaching of prospective secondary physics teachers as related to the subject of sound waves, specifically the topics of sound level and sound intensity. The data is comprised from future teachers’ resp…
View article: Fooled by Rounding
Fooled by Rounding Open
For any convex quadrilateral, joining each vertex to the mid-point of the next-but-one edge in a clockwise direction produces an inner quadrilateral (as does doing so in a counter-clockwise direction). In many cases, a dynamic geometry mea…
View article: Do we need to insist on REAL numbers?
Do we need to insist on REAL numbers? Open
Do we need to insist on real numbers? We present our discussion of this question in the style of duoethnography.
View article: Dialogues on Numbers: Script-Writing as Approximation of Practice
Dialogues on Numbers: Script-Writing as Approximation of Practice Open
Script-writing is a novel pedagogical approach and research tool in mathematics education. The goal of this chapter is to introduce the approach and exemplify its implementation. A script-writing task presents a prompt, which usually inclu…
View article: An Investigation of the Representativeness Heuristic: The Case of a Multiple Choice Exam
An Investigation of the Representativeness Heuristic: The Case of a Multiple Choice Exam Open
By focusing on a particular alteration of the comparative likelihood task, this study contributes to research on teachers' understanding of probability. Our novel task presented prospective teachers with multinomial, contextualized sequenc…