8 Result(s)
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Learning of Linear Transformations Involving Mathematical Modelling Supported by Technology: A Study with Undergraduate Students
This chapter reports part of an ongoing study based on a linear algebra course taking place at a Costa Rican university, which aims i) to of linear algebra concepts through introducing modelling tasks, ii) t...
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Undergraduate Students’ Learning of Linear Algebra Through Mathematical Modelling Routes
Mathematical modelling has acquired relevance at all educational levels in the last decades since integrating this activity in instruction provides significant contexts for improving students’ learning, includ...
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Promoting a Learning Scenario for an Integrated Approach to STEM: Prospective Teachers’ Perspectives in Portugal
This chapter reports on a teacher education project aiming to prepare Portuguese prospective teachers (PTs) of mathematics and of physics for develo** STEM integration activities in school. This study aims t...
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Teachers’ Perspectives About Statistical Reasoning: Opportunities and Challenges for Its Development
This study concerns the perspectives of 11 mathematics teachers about the potential and the challenges of develo** a learning environment targeting students’ statistical in a Developmental Research Project...
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Research on teaching practice in a Portuguese initial secondary mathematics teacher education program
In teacher education, a key issue is how prospective teachers learn. At the University of Lisbon, based on an inquiry-based approach to mathematics learning, we developed a secondary school mathematics teacher...
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Students’ Difficulties in Understanding of Confidence Intervals
There is substantial evidence that university students have considerable difficulties with basic concepts in understanding of statistical inference. This chapter presents the results of a study aiming to analy...
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Develo** Statistical Literacy (DSL): Student Learning and Teacher Education
Recent mathematics curriculum orientations stress the importance of develo** students’ statistical literacy at different school levels. Many students can read and understand tables, charts, and graphs and pe...
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Problem posing based on investigation activities by university students
This paper reports a classroom-based study involving investigation activities in a university numerical analysis course. The study aims to analyse students' mathematical processes and to understand how these a...
