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Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education. VII
About this Title
Fernando Hitt, Université du Québec á Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, Derek Holton, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia and Patrick W. Thompson, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, Editors
Publication: CBMS Issues in Mathematics Education
Publication Year
2010: Volume 16
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-4996-5 (print); 978-1-4704-1565-5 (online)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/cbmath/016
MathSciNet review: MR2668374
MSC: Primary 00A99; Secondary 97-02
ReadershipTable of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Articles
- 1. Rina Zazkis and Natasa Sirotic – Representing and defining irrational numbers: Exposing the missing link
- 2. Matías Camacho Machín, Ram\'on Depool Rivero and Manuel Santos-Trigo – Students’ use of Derive software in comprehending and making sense of definite integral and area concepts
- 3. Lara Alcock – Mathematicians’ perspectives on the teaching and learning of proof
- 4. Lara Alcock and Keith Weber – Referential and syntactic approaches to proving: Case studies from a transition-to-proof course
- 5. Anne Brown, Michael A. McDonald and Kirk Weller – Step by step: Infinite iterative processes and actual infinity
- 6. David T. Kung – Teaching assistants learning how students think
- 7. Kimberly S. Sofronas and Thomas C. DeFranco – An examination of the knowledge base for teaching among mathematics faculty teaching calculus in higher education
- 8. Nicolas Balacheff and Nathalie Gaudin – Modeling students’ conceptions: The case of function
- 9. Vilma Mesa – Strategies for controlling the work in mathematics textbooks for introductory calculus