This book explains and demonstrates the teaching strategy of asking learners to construct
their own examples of mathematical objects. The authors show that the creation of examples …

BACKGROUND There is evidence from earliest historical records that examples play a
central role in both the development of mathematics as a discipline and in the teaching of …

The main goal of the study reported in our paper is to characterize teachers' choice of
examples in and for the mathematics classroom. Our data is based on 54 lesson …

Building on the papers in this special issue as well as on our own experience and research,
we try to shed light on the construct of example spaces and on how it can inform research …

Amongst Mathematicians offers a unique perspective on the ways in which mathematicians
perceive their students' learning, teach and reflect on their teaching practice; also on how …

In this article we investigate how preservice elementary school (K–7) teachers understand
the concept of prime numbers. We describe participants' understanding of primes and …

Bu çalışmada öğrenme güçlüğü ile ilgili literatür taraması yapılmıştır. Yapılan literatür
taramasında, bu kavramı sosyolojik ve psikolojik faktörlerden ziyade bilişsel faktörler …

In advanced mathematical thinking, proving and refuting are crucial abilities to demonstrate
whether and why a proposition is true or false. Learning proofs and counterexamples within …

In dieser Schriftenreihe stehen insbesondere empirische Studien in der
Wirtschaftspädagogik und der Wirtschaftspsychologie im Mittelpunkt, die sich auf Lernen …

What patterns can be observed among the mathematical arguments above-average
students find convincing and the strategies these students use to learn new mathematical …