Practice-Oriented Research in Tertiary Mathematics Education

This edited volume presents a broad range of original practice-oriented research studies about tertiary mathematics education. These are based on current theoretical frameworks and on established and innovative empirical research methods. It provides a relevant overview of current research, along wi...

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Other Authors: Biehler, Rolf (Editor), Liebendörfer, Michael (Editor), Gueudet, Ghislaine (Editor), Rasmussen, Chris (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Advances in Mathematics Education
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 32. Establishing a National Research Agenda in University Mathematics Education to Inform and Improve Teaching and Learning Mathematics as a Service Subject
  • Chapter 33. Tertiary mathematics through the eyes of non-specialists: engineering students’ experiences and perspectives
  • Chapter 24. Preservice secondary school teachers revisiting real numbers: a striking instance of Klein’s second discontinuity
  • Part 5: Research on mathematics for non-specialists
  • Chapter 25. Mathematics in the training of engineers: Contributions of the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic
  • Chapter 26. For an institutional epistemology
  • Chapter 27. Modeling and multiple representations: Bringing together math and engineering
  • Chapter 28. The interface between mathematics and engineering in basic engineering courses
  • Chapter 29. Modifying tasks in mathematics service courses for engineers based on subject-specific analyses of engineering mathematical practices. Chapter 30. Learning mathematics through working with engineering projects
  • Chapter 31. Challenges for research about mathematics for non-specialists
  • Chapter 16. Profession-specific curriculum design research in mathematics teacher education: The case of abstract algebra
  • Chapter 17. Leveraging Collaboration, Coordination, and Curriculum Design to Transform Calculus Teachingand Learning
  • Part 4: Research on university students’ mathematical inquiry
  • Chapter 18. Real or fake inquiries? Study and research paths in statistics and engineering education
  • Chapter 19. Fostering inquiry and creatity in abstract algebra: the theory of banquets and its reflexive stance on the structuralist methodology
  • Chapter 20. Following in Cauchy’s footsteps: student inquiry in real analysis
  • Chapter 21. Examining the role of generic skills in inquiry-based mathematics education: the case of extreme apprenticeship
  • Chapter 22. On the levels and types of students’ inquiry: the case of calculus
  • Chapter 23. Students prove at the board in whole-class setting
  • Part 1: Research on the secondary-tertiary transition
  • Chapter 1. Self-regulated learning of first-year mathematics students
  • Chapter 2. The societal dimension in teacher students beliefs on mathematics teaching and learning
  • Chapter 3. The Organization of Inter-level Communities to Address the Transition Between Secondary and Post-secondary in Mathematics
  • Chapter 4. Framing mathematics support measures: goals, characteristics and frame conditions
  • Part 2: Research on university students' mathematical practices
  • Chapter 5. “It is easy to see”- tacit expectations in multivariable calculus
  • Chapter 6. University Students’ Development of (Non-) Mathematical Practices: A Theory and its Implementation in a Study of one Introductory Real Analysis Course
  • Chapter 7. A theoretical account of the mathematical practices students need in order to learn from lecture
  • Chapter 8. The choice of arguments: considering acceptance and epistemic value in the context of local order
  • Chapter 9.Supporting students in developing adequate definitions at university: The case of the convergence of sequences
  • Chapter 10. Proving and defining in mathematics - Two intertwined mathematical practices
  • Part 3: Research on teaching and curriculum design
  • Chapter 11. Developing mathematics teaching in university tutorials: an activity perspective
  • Chapter 12. Conceptualizations of the role of resources for supporting teaching by university instructors
  • Chapter 13. The rhetoric of the flow of proof – Dissociation, presence and a shared basis of agreement
  • Chapter 14. Teaching Mathematics Education to Mathematics and Education
  • Chapter 15. Inquiry-Oriented Linear Algebra: Connecting Design-Based Research and Instructional Change Theory in Curriculum Design