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... The phenomenon of students’ different learning performance on mathematical problem solving across contexts has attracted a number of researchers’ interest. In general, it is widely recognized that students perform ... See full document

... The main purpose of this study was to research mathematics teacher candidates’ perceptions about the concept of “mathematics” through the use of metaphors. The research is conducted during 2012-2013 academic year, ... See full document

... 1=knowledge, 2=persuasion, 3=decision (accept or reject), 4=implementation and ...authority, 2=decision based on one’s environment and 3=individual’s own ...1=laggards, 2=late majority, ... See full document

... Personalisation of instruction may, in fact, serve several important functions in the mathematics classroom: (1) It creates strong encoding that aids retrieval of knowledge (Davis-Dorsey, Ross & Morrison, 1991) and ... See full document

... Many instructors find it difficult to implement inquiry-based teaching methods for the first time. As discussed by Hodge (Hodge, 2006), the difficulties they encounter may include a sense of loss of control over the ... See full document

... CRA-SI instruction was demonstrated to be successful in teaching skills such as solving problems with fractions, integers, and algebra concepts at the secondary level for [r] ... See full document

... (IST), 4 administrators, and 19 school operations staff ...Black, 2% Latino, and ...average number of disciplinary office referrals was over 10 per day and 1,800 for the school ... See full document

... The concept of multiple representations of functions and the ability to make translations among representations are important topics in secondary school mathematics curricula (Moschkovich, Schoenfeld, & Arcavi, 1993; ... See full document

... In Germany, the national biology education standards (KMK 2004) specify that learners are expected to be able to form hypotheses, plan experiments and analyze data. These competences are theoretically grounded in the ... See full document

... tangible 2) beauty/pristine 3) challenge 4) divine/spiritual 5) grandeur, 6) novel/different/surreal 7) senses 8) solitude/peacefulness, and 9) experiencing wildlife participants provide a context for their ... See full document

... the number of electrons ...the number of electrons in each orbital; intersection and union, such as the joint use of electrons; distributive property of multiplication over addition for the calculation of ... See full document

... Educational systems throughout the world serve students from diverse populations. Often students from minority populations (i.e. racial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic) face unique challenges when learning in ... See full document

... step number and the number of dots by noting that you multiply the step number by three and add one to get the number of ...the number of dots in the 50th ...the number is, the ... See full document

... the number of videos watched or exercises completed, and others offer aggregated summaries by class or by student across a number of ...and number of lessons the student needs to reach an adequate ... See full document

... On the other hand, Niess et al.—the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) Technology and Mathematics Education Committee—(2009) created a set of mathematics teacher TPACK standards that encouraged educators ... See full document

... total, 4 questions related to precipitation and water cycle concepts, 12 questions related to heat and temperature concepts, 5 questions related to expansion-freezing of water concepts, 4 questions related ... See full document

... The emerging e-learning technology and instructional design have broken the limit of time and space for learning to occur. E-learning has affected learning situations in the K-12 level. Today’s classrooms are equipped ... See full document

... In the current study, researchers translated Rice (2003) Paranormal Belief Questions in Turkish and applied factor analysis limiting 2 factors as classical paranormal and religious paranormal beliefs. Factor ... See full document

... The teachers were interviewed at their own schools during their regular hour for preparation, with the exception of one teacher who was interviewed after school hours. The interviews were done in Spanish, audio-taped, ... See full document

... a number of factors contributing to reading difficulty, such as organization of materials, syntax, word length, sentence length, word frequency, typeface, and line spacing (Department of Education and Science, ... See full document