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Halley Bowman – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study used a qualitative, holistic case study to explore obstacles tutors faced when implementing high cognitive demand (HCD) tasks and the possibility of using embedded educative curricular supports to overcome them. Much prior research has explored using educative supports in classrooms with teachers (Davis et al., 2017), but more research…
Descriptors: Tutors, Cognitive Objectives, Instructional Materials, Mathematics Instruction
Ferguson, Sarah – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2012
This paper reports on a study that explored the use of cognitively challenging tasks with low-attaining mathematics students and in particular, their teachers' attempts at scaffolding. A major finding was that responding appropriately to scaffolding opportunities was challenging for the teachers. In this paper two main factors are discussed which…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Educational Opportunities, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Potterfield, April; Majerus, Mary – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2008
Both the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) recommend appropriately incorporating mathematics into other disciplines (NRC 1996; NRC 2003; NCTM 2000). With this in mind, an interdisciplinary, inquiry-based project was undertaken to incorporate mathematical analysis of data into a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Objectives, Physiology, Mathematics Instruction, Statistics