Designing advanced mathematics courses to influence secondary teaching: fostering mathematics teachers’ “attention to scope”

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas H. Wasserman ◽  
Keith Weber ◽  
Timothy Fukawa-Connelly ◽  
William McGuffey
1981 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Daniels Pedro ◽  
Patricia Wolleat ◽  
Elizabeth Fennema ◽  
Ann DeVaney Becker

Males, more than females, elect advanced mathematics courses. This differential in the number of mathematics courses elected has been cited as a major explanation of sex-related differences in adults' mathematics performance and in their participation in mathematics-related careers. Knowledge about some of the variables that enter into the decision to persist in the study of mathematics is essential for those who are interested in encouraging females, as well as males, to adequately prepare themselves in mathematics. This study identified some attitudinal and attributional variables that relate to the election of mathematics courses by females and males. A small set of variables was found to explain some of the variance in female and male mathematics plans. These results might help in understanding why females do not continue in as large a proportion as males to elect mathematics and/or to enter mathematics-related careers.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Guijuan Tian

With the increasing enrollment of general higher vocational colleges every year, the inconsistency between the knowledge level and ability of the enrolled students and ideological and political education hinders the realization of the teaching purpose of the school to a great extent. Advanced mathematics is a compulsory basic course for college students and an important subject for realizing the teaching purpose. In order to achieve the teaching purpose and improve the teaching quality and level of mathematics in higher vocational colleges, we must deepen the reform of teaching contents in advanced mathematics courses in colleges, and integrate mathematical knowledge with ideological and political education organically, giving full play to the teaching characteristics of advanced mathematics courses while fulfilling the ideological and political education for students. Moreover, ideological and political education is also combined with interactive advantages by means of interactive teaching. This paper briefly discusses how to integrate advanced mathematics course with ideological and political education. By analyzing the actual teaching cases of ideological and political education and advanced mathematics courses, the content of classroom teaching is discussed.


1964 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 208-211
Author(s):  
William R. Blank

What do chairmen of college mathematics departments and directors of admissions believe high schools should offer as advanced mathematics courses?


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