Doing the scholarship of teaching and learning in mathematics
By: edited by Jacqueline M. Dewar and Curtis D. Bennett, Loyola Marymount University
Contributors: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Series: MAA notes -- #83; MAA notes -- no. 83.
Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780883851937; 9781614443186
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Mathematics; Reflective teaching; Study and teaching; Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding SoTL and its potential benefits; title: Initiating a SoTL investigation; title: Gathering and analyzing evidence; title: Resources for pursuing SoTL and going public; title: Assessing the effectiveness of classroom visual cues; title: (Re)discovering SoTL through a fundamental challenge : helping students transition to college calculus; title: A quantitative and qualitative comparison of homework structures in a multivariable calculus class; title: Playing games to teach mathematics; title: Investigating how students' linking historical events to developments in mathematics changed engagement in a history of mathematics course; title: Using SoTL to assess the outcomes of teaching statistics through civic engagement; title: A pedagogical odyssey; title: Presenting evidence for the field that invented the randomized clinical trial; title: Conceptual or computational? Making sense of reading questions in an inverted statistics course; title: An investigation into the effectiveness of pre-class reading questions; title: Liberal arts mathematics students' beliefs about the nature of mathematics : a case study in survey research; title: The mathematics of symmetry and attitudes towards mathematics; title: Mathematics research experiences for preservice teachers : investigating the impact on their beliefs; title: The question of transfer : investigating how mathematics contributes to a liberal education; title: Using SoTL practices to drive curriculum development; title: Synthesis of the value and benefits of SoTL experienced by the contributors.