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Theories of Mathematical Learning

• Routledge eBooks (2013)

Contents: Preface. Part I: P. Cobb, Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives on Mathematics Learning. P. Cobb, B. Jaworski, N. Presmeg, Emergent and Sociocultural Views of Mathematical Activity. J. Voigt, Negotiation of Mathematical Me...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203053126

The Journal of Mathematical Behavior

Carolyn A. Maher, Elizabeth B. Uptegrove, LOUISE CHERRY WILKINSON • ICME-13 monographs (2019)

The Journal of Mathematical Behavior solicits original research on the learning and teaching of mathematics, from young children to adults, with a focus on how mathematical ideas are developed in learners under certain conditions that suppo...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15636-7_22

American Mathematical Monthly

Daniel J. Velleman • American Mathematical Monthly (2010)

This document is a printed form of MSC2020, an MSC revision produced jointly by the editorial staffs of Mathematical Reviews (MR) and Zentralblatt für Mathematik (zbMATH) in consultation with the mathematical community.The goals of this rev...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4169/000298910x484726

Skills underlying mathematics: The role of executive function in the development of mathematics proficiency

Lucy Cragg, Camilla K. Gilmore • Trends in Neuroscience and Education (2014)

The successful learning and performance of mathematics relies on a range of individual, social and educational factors. Recent research suggests that executive function skills, which include monitoring and manipulating information in mind (...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tine.2013.12.001

Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning

George Pólya • CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) (1954)

This is a guide to the practical art of plausible reasoning, this book has relevance in every field of intellectual activity. Professor Polya, a world-famous mathematician from Stanford University, uses mathematics to show how hunches and g...

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The Chicken or the Egg? The Direction of the Relationship Between Mathematics Anxiety and Mathematics Performance

Emma Carey, Francesca Hill, Amy Devine, Dénes Szűcs • Frontiers in Psychology (2016)

This review considers the two possible causal directions between mathematics anxiety (MA) and poor mathematics performance. Either poor maths performance may elicit MA (referred to as the Deficit Theory), or MA may reduce future maths perfo...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01987 PMC: 4703847

The Effects of the Weak Allee Effect and Disease on the Dynamics of a Predator–Prey System: Stability and Bifurcation Properties

Yurong Dong, Hua Liu, Jianhua Ye, Gang Ma et al. • Axioms (2025)

In this paper, an eco-epidemiological model with a weak Allee effect and prey disease dynamics is discussed. Mathematical features such as non-negativity, boundedness of solutions, and local stability of the feasible equilibria are discusse...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/axioms14070531

The Language of Mathematics: The Importance of Teaching and Learning Mathematical Vocabulary

Paul J. Riccomini, Gregory W. Smith, Elizabeth M. Hughes, Karen M. Fries • Reading & Writing Quarterly (2015)

Vocabulary understanding is a major contributor to overall comprehension in many content areas, including mathematics. Effective methods for teaching vocabulary in all content areas are diverse and long standing. Teaching and learning the l...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10573569.2015.1030995

University mathematics students' conceptions of mathematics

Kathryn Crawford, Sue Gordon, Jackie Nicholas, Michael Prosser • Studies in Higher Education (1998)

A Conceptions of Mathematics Questionnaire was developed, designed to provide an indicator of the nature of students' conceptions of the subject matter they were studying. The scales of the questionnaire were based upon a set of conceptions...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079812331380512

On proof and progress in mathematics

William P.HG Thurston • Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (1994)

This essay on the nature of proof and progress in mathematics was stimulated by the article of Jaffe and Quinn, "Theoretical Mathematics: Toward a cultural synthesis of mathematics and theoretical physics".Their article raises interesting i...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0273-0979-1994-00502-6

Mathematics in the streets and in schools

Terezinha Nunes Carraher, David William Carraher, Analucia Dias Schliemann • British Journal of Developmental Psychology (1985)

An analysis of everyday use of mathematics by working youngsters in commercial transactions in Recife, Brazil, revealed computational strategies different from those taught in schools. Performance on mathematical problems embedded in real‐l...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-835x.1985.tb00951.x