Browsing by Subject "geometry"
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(2012-07-23)Department: Teaching and LearningThis dissertation presents the first iteration of a design study that investigates an instructional setting that I call Walking Scale Geometry (WSG). WSG tasks are geometry problems that are meant to be solved at very large ...
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(2016-11-21)Department: PsychologyThe correlation coefficient be can interpreted as the cosine of the angle between centered or standardized variable vectors in subject space. Using this interpretation of the correlation, the space occupied by 3x3 correlation ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-07-22)By the time students reach high school, many parents do not feel equipped to assist their children with homework. However, research shows that even through high school parent involvement in homework can lead to positive ...
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(2007-07-31)Department: MathematicsIn this thesis, we discuss the classification of closed flat four-manifolds. First, we give a brief treatment of the history of this problem, with a discussion of the advantages, disadvantages, and inconsistencies among ...
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(2019-03-27)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityVisualizing and reasoning about space are foundational to the epistemic enterprise of mathematics. However, current K-12 math curriculum largely neglects cultivating children’s mathematical understandings of and visualizing ...