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Herbert, Sandra – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2010
Rate is an important, but difficult mathematical concept. More than twenty years of research, especially with calculus students, report difficulties with this concept. This paper reports on an alternative analysis, from the perspective of multiple representations and context, of interviews probing twenty Victorian Year 10 students' conceptions of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries, Mathematical Concepts, Calculus
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Lobato, Joanne; Clarke, David; Ellis, Amy Burns – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2005
We address the telling/not-telling dilemma in mathematics education. Telling is instructionally important, but has been downplayed because of (a) perceived inconsistencies between telling and constructivism, (b) increased awareness of the negative consequences of relying too heavily on telling, and (c) a focus on "non-telling" actions as…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Constructivism (Learning), Experiments, Intention