Promoting Student Buy-in: Using Writing to Develop Mathematical Understanding

Promoting Mathematical Understanding Using ICT in Teaching and Learning

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in mathematical education is a very active field of research and innovation, where learning is understood to be meaningful and grasping multiple linked representation rather than rote memorization, a great amount of literature offering a wide range of theories, learning approaches, methodologies and interpretations, are generally stressing the po...

Promoting higher levels of reflective writing in student journals

This paper traces the development over several years of an initiative involving student journals that was introduced into a tertiary science education course for pre-service teachers to promote enhanced learning of how to teach science. Very soon after introducing the journals into course work the lecturer began engaging in ‘unplanned’ informal reflection (reflection-in-action and reflection-on...

Using Pooled Judgments to Develop Tests of Basic Writing

In this paper I describe the technique that we at East Texas State University use to create, administer, and monitor valid and reliable measures of the writing skills of students enrolled in basic writing courses. 1 Our technique meets two major needs: it provides one means by which the instructors of basic writing students2may benefit from the judgments of colleagues in assessing the skill lev...

Using Lexical Analysis Software to Assess Student Writing in Statistics

Mathematical Writing

This report is based on a course of the same name given at Stanford University during autumn quarter, 1987. Here's the catalog description: CS 209. Mathematical Writing—Issues of technical writing and the effective presentation of mathematics and computer science. Preparation of theses, papers, books, and " literate " computer programs. A term paper on a topic of your choice; this paper may be ...