Search for dissertations about: "school-mathematics"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 27 swedish dissertations containing the word school-mathematics.

  2. 1. Knowledge and writing in school mathematics : a communicational approach

    Author : Anna Teledahl; Johan Öhman; Eva Taflin; Candia Morgan; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Mathematics; Writing; Students; Assessment; Communication; Education; Pedagogik; Utbildning och lärande;

    Abstract : This thesis is about young students’ writing in school mathematics and the ways in which this writing is designed, interpreted and understood. Students’ communication can act as a source from which teachers can make inferences regarding students’ mathematical knowledge and understanding. READ MORE

  4. 2. To become, or not to become, a primary school mathematics teacher : A study of novice teachers’ professional identity development

    Author : Hanna Palmér; Jeppe Skott; Laura Van Zoest; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Primary school mathematics teacher; Professional identity development; Novice teacher; Ethnographic case study.; Mathematical Education; Matematikdidaktik;

    Abstract : This thesis is about the process of becoming, or not becoming, a primary school mathematics teacher. The aim is to understand and describe the professional identity development of novice primary school mathematics teachers from the perspective of the novice teachers themselves. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Ecology of Mary’s Mathematics Teaching : Tracing Co-determination within School Mathematics Practices

    Author : Anna Pansell; Lisa Björklund-Boistrup; Paul Andrews; Uwe Gellert; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Mathematics teaching; Mathematics teachers; ATD; Co-determination; Praxeology; matematikämnets didaktik; Mathematics Education;

    Abstract : Teachers’ mathematics teaching has been studied in many different ways. Such studies not often include more contexts than the teacher’s teaching practice. READ MORE

  6. 4. Problem-solving revisited : On school mathematics as a situated practice

    Author : Jan Wyndhamn; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Problem-solving; Learning in school; Mathematics learning; Cognition and context; Situated learning; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Abstract : The general interest behind the present work is to contribute to an understanding of human cognition in context. More specifically, the empirical research reported focuses on how pupils define and deal with problem-solving in what for them is a regular school situation. READ MORE

  7. 5. Mathematics at work : a study of mathematical organisations in Rwandan workplaces and educational settings

    Author : Marcel Gahamanyi; Ingrid Andersson; Christer Bergsten; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : Workplace mathematics; school mathematics; activity theory; anthropological theory of didactics; mathematical organisation; didactic transposition; contextualised mathematical tasks.; Skolmatematik; arbetsplatsmatematik; aktivitetsteori; antropologisk didaktisk teori; matematisk organisation; didaktisk transposition; kontextualiserade uppgifter; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

    Abstract : To make mathematics more significant for the beneficiaries, the problem studied in this thesis is to investigate how to connect mathematical daily practices with educational contexts. The overarching aim is to investigate how to contextualise school mathematics within Rwandan cultural mathematics practices. READ MORE