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Agent of Change: NSF Sponsored Mathematics Curriculum Development
(NCSM Journal of Mathematics Education Leadership, 2007)
these factors is the lack of consensus of state standards on what and when certain topics in mathematics should be addressed. The variability of grade placement of key mathematics learning goals across different state standards results in excessive repetition...
Report of a Survey of State Mathematics Supervisors: What influence has NCTM's Curriculum Focal Points had on state-level specification of learning goals?
(2007-09)
An e-mail survey was conducted in the summer of 2007 to obtain information from state
supervisors of mathematics (employees of state departments of education with primary
responsibility for K-12 curriculum leadership) ...
High School Mathematics: State-Level Curriculum Standards and Graduation Requirements
(2007-04)
The federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act has prompted increased activity at the state level in the specification of mathematics curriculum learning goals in the United States. As a direct result of NCLB, 39 states have replaced or revised...
What is the Focus and Emphasis on Calculators in State-Level K-8 Mathematics Curriculum Standards Documents?
(NCSM Journal of Mathematics Education Leadership, 2006)
We conducted our own analysis of official state mathematics curriculum standards documents so that we might understand and describe the extent to which states support use of calculators in elementary and middle school mathematics classes...
Analyzing how grade four teachers plan to teach inquiry-based curriculum materials and the influences on their preparation of mathematics lessons
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This study documented how Grade 4 teachers plan to teach from an inquiry-based mathematics curriculum, and identified specific influences on planning. Previous studies of instructional decision-making yielded a framework for researching lesson...
Development of State-Level Mathematics Curriculum Documents: Report of a Survey
(Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum, 2005-03)
Recent federal initiatives, most notably the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation,
have exerted substantial influence on state and local decision-making. One element of
the educational system that has been affected ...
K-12 Mathematics: What Should Students Learn and When Should They Learn it?
(2007-02)
In the fall of 2006 several influential national groups (Achieve, American Statistical Association, College Board, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) developed and released documents that recommended curriculum standards or focal...
Computational neural models at molecular, cellular and behavioral levels : three case studies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Biological findings from molecular, cellular and behavior levels can be difficult to understand functions. Computational tools and systems concepts facilitate integration of information across levels to further understanding ...
Examination of the levels of Cogitive Demand Required by Probability Tasks in Middle Grades Mathematics Textbooks
(Statistics Education Research Journal (SERJ), 2007-11)
We analyze probability content within middle grades (6, 7, and 8) mathematics
textbooks from a historical perspective. Two series, one popular and the other
alternative, from four recent eras of mathematics education ...
Average Normalisations of Elliptic Curves
(Australian Mathematical Society, 2002)
Ciet, Quisquater, and Sica have recently shown that every elliptic curve E over a finite field Fp is isomorphic to a curve y2 = x3 +ax+b
with a and b of size O(p3/4). In this paper, we show that almost all elliptic curves ...
The effects of animated agents with verbal audio on mathematics comprehension and attitudes towards mathematics and computers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
This doctoral study investigated the effect of animated agents with verbal audio in WBI on mathematics achievement and attitudes toward mathematics and computers using a pretest-posttest control group design model among eighty-one college students...
Intended Mathematics Curriculum as Represented in State-Level Curriculum Standards: Consensus or Confusion?
(2006-04)
-level mathematics curriculum
specification in the U.S. and highlights a general lack of consensus across states. As
states continue to work to improve learning opportunities for all students, we hope this
report will serve as a useful summary to inform future...
On the norm of an idempotent Schur multiplier on the Schatten class
(American Mathematical Society, 2004)
We show that if the norm of an idempotent Schur multiplier on the Schatten class Sp lies sufficiently close to 1, then it is necessarily equal to 1. We also give a simple characterization of those idempotent Schur multipliers ...
Erdős distance problem in the hyperbolic half-plane
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
The Erd̋os distance problem asks for the minimum number of distinct distances determined by large finite point sets in the plane. The aim of this work is to investigate how the classical techniques employed in the study ...
Approximate isometries and distortion energy functionals
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
A fundamental problem in Riemannian Geometry and related areas is to determine whether two diffeomorphic compact Riemannian manifolds (M, [subscript g][subscript M]) and (N, [subscript g][subscript N]) are isometric; that ...
Determining and Responding to Teacher Professional Development Needs
(2008)
professional development for teachers was not the only necessary component for moving school organizations forward. As a result, the initial premise of the ALM project was based on the idea that revitalizing school mathematics programs required full, systemic...
Understanding the Use of Curriculum Materials: A Cross-Site Research Study Report
(Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum, 2006-06)
A cross-site study conducted under the auspices of CSMC was designed to explore curriculum enactment of a particular mathematical topic in the three districts. District representatives selected “composing and decomposing” as the focus of the study...
Explorations of geometric combinatorics in vector spaces over finite fields
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
We study how large a set of points needs to be in a vector space over a finite field in order for the points to determine all of a certain type of geometric structure. In addition we show that there are key differences ...
Boletín de FICOM
(2000)
Newsletter for Spanish-speaking junior high-school mathematics teachers involved in mathematics clubs or mathematics competitions. Published during 2000 and 2001. Newsletters are in Spanish....
Perceptions of effective and ineffective professional development held by teachers and staff developers [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2004)
Our research is focused on the effectiveness of professional development for science and mathematics teachers in Missouri. Professional development is a term used to describe experiences which are aimed to improve teacher knowledge and instruction...