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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Mathematics Teachers' Enactment of Cognitively Demanding Tasks: Investigating Links to Teachers' Knowledge and Conceptions
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Wilhelm, Anne Garrison – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2014
This study sought to understand how aspects of middle school mathematics teachers' knowledge and conceptions are related to their enactment of cognitively demanding tasks. I defined the enactment of cognitively demanding tasks to involve task selection and maintenance of the cognitive demand of high-level tasks and examined those two…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Mathematics Instruction
An Interpretive Scheme for Analyzing the Identities that Students Develop in Mathematics Classrooms
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Cobb, Paul; Gresalfi, Melissa; Hodge, Lynn Liao – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2009
Our primary purpose in this article is to propose an interpretive scheme for analyzing the identities that students develop in mathematics classrooms that can inform instructional design and teaching. We first introduce the key constructs of normative identity and personal identity, and then illustrate how they can be used to conduct empirical…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Mathematics Instruction, Middle School Students, Student Characteristics