Making the connection:research and teaching in undergraduate mathematics education
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Mathematical Association of America,
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Publisher Address: | Washington, DC |
Publication Dates: | 2008. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
MAA notes ; #73 |
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Carrier Form: | xi, 319 p.: ill. ; 28 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780883851838 (pbk.) 0883851830 (pbk.) |
Index Number: | O13 |
CLC: | O13-4 |
Call Number: | O13-4/M235 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references. On developing a rich conception of variable / Maria Trigueros and Sally Jacobs -- Rethinking change / Bob Speiser and Chuck Walter -- Foundational reasoning abilities that promote coherence in students' function understanding / Michael Oehrtman, Marilyn Carlson and Patrick Thompson -- The concept of accumulation in calculus / Patrick Thompson and Jason Silverman -- Developing notions of infinity / Michael A. McDonald and Anne Brown -- Layers of abstraction: theory and design for the instruction of limit concepts / Michael Oehrtman -- Divisibility and transparency of number representations / Rina Zazkis -- Overcoming students' difficulties in learning to understand and construct proofs / Annie Selden and John Selden -- Mathematical induction: cognitive and instructional considerations / Guershon Harel and Stacy Brown -- Proving starting from informal notions of symmetry and transformations / Michelle Zandieh, Sean Larson, and Denise Nunley . |