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DeJarnette, Anna F. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2022
Background: Groupwork is a desirable activity in mathematics classrooms for the opportunity it creates for collaborative reasoning and interdependence. Correlations between group-level processes and outcomes have helped characterize the features of more successful groups, but group-level constructs can obscure how students negotiate ideas. This…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Grade 7, Middle School Students
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McNeill, R. Taylor; Leyva, Luis A.; Marshall, Brittany – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2022
Background: Calculus instruction is underexamined as a source of racialized and gendered inequity in higher education, despite research that documents minoritized students' marginalizing experiences in undergraduate mathematics classes. This study fills this research gap by investigating mathematics faculty's perceptions of the significance of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Calculus, College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
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Kapur, Manu – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2014
A total of 136 eighth-grade math students from 2 Singapore schools learned from either productive failure (PF) or vicarious failure (VF). PF students "generated" solutions to a complex problem targeting the concept of variance that they had not learned yet before receiving instruction on the targeted concept. VF students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Mathematics Instruction, Failure