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Broadening Mathematics Curriculum: Linking Children’s Literature to Mathematics
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-06-15)
Children’s literature provides connections across all content areas. When incorporated within mathematics, it provides an engaging, accessible, and authentic context for learning. The literary experience can lead to ...
Improving Mathematics Achievement in the United States
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06-15)
Students' Mathematical Beliefs Implicitly Learned Through Assessment
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-07-15)
Students come to beliefs about what mathematics is through a host of factors. One of these is through the way that they are assessed. Through summative, standardized achievement tests, students are evaluated on what it is ...
Elements of Effective Tasks in Creating Positive Dispositions: A Capstone Project
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06-15)
Research has shown that while the discipline of mathematics focuses on negotiation, interpretation, and uncertainty, classroom mathematics often focus on rigidity, rules, and prescribed algorithms. This misalignment of ...
Pushing Beyond Procedures to Enhance Mathematics Learning
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-07)
While many ideas abound in the literature about what effective mathematics instruction entails, procedural instruction still dominates in United States mathematics classrooms. Many math teachers seem to have a natural ...
Design for the Body in Mathematics Classrooms
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015)
In this paper, I explore what it might mean to take the body as the focus of design to support learning in mathematics classrooms, and more specifically, to support learning to work with graphs. I will provide an overview ...
Multicultural Mathematics:What is the Importance of Incorporating Diverse Understandings in the Contemporary Elementary Classroom?: A Practical Application of Measurement through the Cultural Context of the Native Yup’ik People
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-06-15)
Multicultural mathematics acts as a link between the contributive notions of ethnomathematics and the practices of culturally relevant pedagogy. It challenges the common disconnect between mathematical concepts and the ...
Teaching Elementary Mathematics With Children's Literature
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-06-15)
The goal of this paper is to investigate and evaluate children’s literature in terms of its use within mathematics curriculum. I have laid out criteria for assessing literature to be used in mathematics, as well as provided ...
Teaching Creativity Skills Through STEAM Curriculum
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-03-08)
While creativity is difficult to measure, it is not impossible. Educators must begin to identify and assess creativity in students in order for America to remain a competitive force in STEM fields. One way to measure ...
Integrating Children's Literature into the Mathematics Classroom
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-05)
Learning mathematics can sometimes be mundane and limited when it is taught solely through a textbook. In order to engage and reach more students, mathematics in the K-5 classroom can be supplemented with an approach through ...