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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...
Groupoids and semigroupoids
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The theory of semigroupoids and groupoids makes the transition between arbitrary sets and groups. The usefulness of developing theory stems from various ...
Examining secondary teachers' practical rationality of mathematical modeling
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Research on mathematical modeling is growing rapidly in the field of mathematics education, and there are numerous benefits of engaging students in modeling activities. However, mathematical modeling is still marginalized in mathematics instruction...
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 ...
On projective morphisms of varieties with nef anticanonical divisor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
We shall study and discuss some important properties of the projective varieties with nef anticanonical bundles and nef tangent bundles. And we shall review some background and history about the subject. Then we shall use ...
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...
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....
Analysis of content and pedagogical content knowledge in secondary mathematics teachers' preparation programs : perceptions of novice teachers, cooperating teachers, and university professors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
math teachers. Universities create a customized path of preparation based on their beliefs within the scope of a set of standards given by organizations such as the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics or National Council for Accreditation...
Using early numeracy indicators as a means to predict long-term math achievement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
, and missing number measures given in grades Kindergarten and Grade 1 were compared to proficiency on a state high stakes mathematics achievement test at Grades 3 and 4. Logistic regression was utilized in order to predict a Proficient or Not Proficient score...
Geometric combinatorics in discrete settings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This thesis is a compilation of work in which the author studies geometric configurations in finite fields and the integers modulo q. The results of this dissertation are threefold. First, we prove a finite field analog ...
Topics in non-locally convex functional analysis and geometrical analysis with applications to boundary value problems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation is comprised of two parts. The first part, consisting of chapters 2-13, deals with issues pertaining to non-locally functional analysis. ...
Statistical and stochastic results for three dimensional fluids
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
In part I, we show that the longitudinal correlation function for homogeneous and isotropic turbulence remains negative in an interval of time, up to Galerkin approximation. Part II covers the existence and uniqueness of ...
Constant proportion portfolio insurance and related topics with empirical study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The concept of Constant Proportion Portfolio Insurance (CPPI) in terms of jump-diffusion, as well as the associated mean-variance hedging problem, has been studied. Three types of risk related to: the probability of loss, ...
What we can freeze from the body and why : a historical, physical, and mathematical introduction [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
The public often links cryobiology, the study of biological materials at low temperatures, with the science fiction of whole body and head freezing, but in reality successful cryopreservation of biological materials is limited to isolated cells...
Applications of fourier analysis to intersection bodies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
of the Busemann-Petty problem. We are interested in comparing classes of [kappa]-intersection bodies. In the first chapter we present the result that was published in J. Schlieper, A note on [kappa]-intersection bodies, Proceedings American. Mathematical Society...
A study of teacher knowledge as secondary mathematics teachers use a new technology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Professional organizations (e.g., NCTM and NCSM) and educational leaders advocate for increased use of technology in high school mathematics. Educational researchers find that teachers' beliefs and knowledge influence use of technology and student...
Implementation of integrated mathematics textbooks in secondary school classrooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
The study reports how 44 secondary school teachers implemented the first two courses of an integrated mathematics textbook series, Core-Plus. Textbook implementation was examined in relation to three components: (a) regular use of textbook; (b) use...
The Dirichlet problem for elliptic and degenerate elliptic equations, and related results
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
In this thesis, we first prove the solvability of Dirichlet problem with Lp data on the boundary for degenerate elliptic equations. Second, We obtain Lp bounds semi-groups and their gradients, and then we get Lp bounds for ...
Some results in convex geometry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
This thesis is divided into four parts. The first part is about proving that the unit ball of the Lorentz space is not an intersection body for dimension greater than or equal to 5 and q > 2. We go on to explain the ...
On hydrodynamic equations and their relation to kinetic theory and statistical mechanics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] We establish conditions on the Hamiltonian evolution of interacting molecules that imply hydrodynamic equations at the limit of infinitely many molecules ...