Search for dissertations about: "Mathematics culture"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the words Mathematics culture.
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1. The micro-culture of a mathematics classroom : artefacts and activity in meaning making and problem solving
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2. Approaching Proof in a Community of Mathematical Practice
Abstract : This thesis aims to describe how students encounter proof in a community of mathematical practice at a mathematics department and how they are drawn to share mathematicians’ views and knowledge of proof. Considering the department as a community of practice where the joint enterprise is learning mathematics in a broad sense made it possible to perceive the newcomers as active participants in the practice. READ MORE
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3. What Will We Learn? : A Mathematical Treatise of Cultural Evolution
Abstract : In this thesis we apply mathematics and formal modeling to study culture from an evolutionary standpoint. Cultural evolution theory is based on the belief that we can increase our understanding of human behavior by studying how culture is created and spread. READ MORE
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4. Macroscopic Modeling of Metabolic Reaction Networks and Dynamic Identification of Elementary Flux Modes by Column Generation
Abstract : In this work an intersection between optimization methods and animal cell culture modeling is considered. We present optimization based methods for analyzing and building models of cell culture; models that could be used when designing the environment cells are cultivated in, i.e., medium. READ MORE
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5. Power, positionings and mathematics – discursive practices in mathematics teacher education : Climbing Lion’s Head
Abstract : This is an ethnographic study from within mathematics teacher education in Sweden. A methodological insider approach enabled to view teacher education from the students’ perspectives, by focusing how discursive power-relations affected what becoming mathematics teachers brought forward as concerning during two years of education. READ MORE