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Enhancing mathematical achievement has been identified as a pivotal issue in school education, extending beyond mathematics education alone. However, research comprehensively examining the relationship between multiple affective variables and learnin...
The purpose of this paper is to explain at the simplest possible level why finite mathematics based on a finite ring of characteristic p is more general (fundamental) than standard mathematics. The belief of most mathematicians and physicists that st...
The aim of this study is to investigate which supportive factors positively influence inclusive mathematics education so that it is accessible to all pupils in mainstream primary and secondary school settings from the mathematics teachers’ pers...
This study seeks to explore the relationship between recent findings on mathematical connections and the Mathematics Teacher’s Specialised knowledge model. From a qualitative approach, we seek to explore the specialised knowledge mobilised duri...
Mathematics teacher educators (MTEs) play a significant role in supporting prospective teachers (PTs) to develop the mathematical content and pedagogical knowledge they need for teaching. We examined how four novice prospective MTEs learn within a Co...
Understanding students’ opportunities in mathematics education requires tools that capture the social and cultural dimensions shaping their engagement with the subject. One way to conceptualise these opportunities is through the notion of mathe...
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Value-added assessments have become a reasonable and accepted assessment method for education and teaching. Mathematics reading ability is an important ability in mathematics learning which provides a prerequisite for solving mathematical problems. W...
With this notice, the Mathematics Editorial Office states its awareness of concerns regarding the findings of the published manuscript [...]
Mathematical thinking (MT) has been one of the most important goals for mathematics education as it can support sustainable mathematics learning. Its role in school mathematics has recently been explicitly identified as one of “Four Basics&rdqu...
Old mathematics books and textbooks have focused different researchers onto the history of mathematics and mathematics education. However, books are not the only information source for this field; for example, researchers can also study periodical-ty...
When public schooling was first introduced in the United States, early proponents emphasized the need for mathematics as critical for an informed citizenry in a democracy. Half a century later, this purpose of mathematics has been almost entirely ove...
6 December 2021
Language is an essential aspect of teaching and learning mathematics. It is necessary for communication, the transmission of concepts and ideas, and the formation of meaning of mathematical concepts. In mathematics, besides symbols, which are usually...
To investigate the moderating role of working memory subcomponents in the relationship between mathematics anxiety and mathematics achievement among middle school students, this study selected 92 seventh-grade students (45 boys, 47 girls) from a midd...
1 July 2020
This study aimed to investigate secondary students’ mathematics achievement emotions and their mediating effects on the relationships between classroom environmental characteristics, namely, teacher–student interactional styles (i.e., tea...
Over the past 30 years, teacher education has changed to incorporate a larger emphasis on understanding students’ sociocultural backgrounds, knowing that these influence their learning. However, in terms of mathematics and mathematics education...
In this article we analyze the current state of the didactics of mathematics in the U.S. as it relates to research on equity. The sociopolitical turn in U.S. mathematics education resulted in a push for critical mathematics pedagogies (CMPs) in which...
Since the late 1960s, a reform in mathematics education, which is currently known under the name Realistic Mathematics Education (RME), has been taking place in the Netherlands. Characteristic for this approach to mathematics education is that mathem...
This paper discusses authenticity from the perspective of mathematics education. Often, school mathematics offers students inauthentic word problems, which don’t show the authentic usefulness of mathematics in real life. In some tasks, authenti...
This study investigated the relationship between preservice elementary mathematics teachers’ beliefs about mathematics and their mathematical modeling competencies. In the study, the belief categories of the preservice teachers were first deter...
Physical educators can incorporate mathematics and technology into their curriculum. The challenge is how to do this without sacrificing the core learning central to physical education (PE). The aim of this study was to examine the impact of an inten...
The main goal of this presentation is to explain that classical mathematics is a special degenerate case of finite mathematics in the formal limit p→∞, where p is the characteristic of the ring or field in finite mathematics. This statemen...
In this article, I explore the experiences of queer high school students in the context of Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice (TMSJ) regarding the injustices of bullying and harassment queer individuals go through in society. Specifically, I aim...
The focus of this research is how Sicilian state university mathematics professors faced the challenge of teaching via distance education during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the pandemic entered our lives suddenly, the professors fo...
This paper explores two-way relations between visualizations in mathematics and mathematical art, as well as art in general. A collection of vignettes illustrates connection points, including visualizing higher dimensions, tessellations, knots and li...
Teacher identity emerges from the intertwined relationship of past, present, and future experiences, shaped through active reflection within individual, social, and cultural contexts. This study investigates how initial teacher education programs for...
Mathematical learning—understanding patterns, logic, and space—always carries ethical, relational, and political dimensions, even though these might be routinely muted at school. At the same time, Indigenous relationalities have often dri...
The secondary-school mathematics curriculum is narrow in scope and technical in character; this is quite different from the nature of the discipline itself. As a result, it offers little inspiration to both students and teachers, and provides student...
Recognizing the omnipresence of mathematics across various contexts, this paper addresses the untapped potential of museums as rich venues for informal mathematics learning beyond traditional educational settings like classrooms. This paper presents...
This paper offers a historical review of the evolution of mathematical methods in economics, tracing their development from the earliest attempts in the 18th century to the sophisticated models of the late 20th century. The study begins by examining...
After providing a brief summary of what has already been said about pedagogical imagination, data are presented showing how prospective mathematics teachers can become engaged in such imaginations. With reference to this data, the notion of pedagogic...
Mathematics interwoven with Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) EntreMunods is an ontological playground for youth liberation, where mathematical learning helped to create an experience where youth empower themselves by engaging in critical so...
10 September 2021
This study conceptualized the multidimensional construct of parental involvement, including cognitive involvement, behavioral involvement, and personal involvement, and examined the mediating effects of student’s mental health and mathematics self-ef...
Learning styles is the idea that there are unique ways in which individuals approach learning and process information. Though refuted, the idea of learning styles has not declined in peer-reviewed reports of empirical studies or teacher/practitioner...
This paper addresses discontinuities in the solutions of mathematical physics that describe actual processes and are not observed in experiments. The appearance of discontinuities is associated in this paper with the classical differential calculus b...
According to the views of social constructivism, learning takes place when individuals engage socially to talk about and act on shared problems or interests. In recent years, this approach has been very popular for the teaching and learning of mathem...
In this study, we conduct a bibliometric review of the Mathematics journal to map its thematic structure, and to identify major research trends for future research to build on. Our review focuses primarily on the bibliometric clusters derived from an...
STEM education has been promoted in schools worldwide to cultivate students’ 21st-century skills. Mathematical modelling is a valuable method for developing STEM education. However, in this respect, more attention is given to secondary level or...
The role of mathematics in several scientific disciplines is undisputed; work and everyday life take great advantage of its application. Nevertheless, students often tend to not particularly like it and to consider it of little interest. It is also b...
Mathematical reasoning is gaining increasing significance in mathematics education. It has become part of school curricula and the numbers of empirical studies are growing. Researchers investigate mathematical reasoning, yet, what is being under inve...
There is a noticeable gap between results of cognitive neuroscientific research into basic mathematical abilities and philosophical and empirical investigations of mathematics as a distinct intellectual activity. The paper explores the relevance of a...
School is a space where learning mathematics should be accompanied by the student’s preferences; however, its valuation in the classroom is not necessarily the same. From a quantitative approach, we ask from the mathematical thinking styles (MTS) the...
This paper proposes an experimental path aimed at guiding upper secondary school students to overcome that discontinuity, often perceived by them, between learning geometry and learning algebra. This path contributes to making students aware of how t...
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