Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching articles from December 2003

Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching archives from December 2003

Cognitive theory to guide curriculum design for learning from examples and by doing.
December 1, 2003... Our current understanding of the cognitive processes underlying human learning enables cognitive psychology to offer valuable guides to the design of curricula in school subjects. This article summarizes some...

Factors mediating the use of online applets in the lesson planning of preservice mathematics teachers.
December 1, 2003... This article reports on a study of 18 preservice mathematics teachers' pedagogical thinking when using online applets in their lesson planning. The applets facilitate the investigation of mathematical...

Fostering authentic, sustained, and progressive mathematical knowledge-building activity in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) communities.
December 1, 2003... Eliciting high-level mathematics symbolizing and communicating from students engaged in mathematics communities of practice has been found to be a challenging problem. In this article, we report on a...

Decomposition diversity in computer science--beyond the top-down icon.
December 1, 2003... One fundamental problem solving approach in computer science is decomposition. While decomposition encapsulates a variety of perspectives, its explicitly elaborated perspectives are top-down and...

Technology in the mathematics classroom: conceptual orientation.
December 1, 2003... Teaching mathematics through multiple representation frameworks presents an open-ended but complex learning structure. This article elaborates on teaching mathematics for conceptual understanding in the...

Programming and probability: a practical application of principles and standards for school mathematics.
December 1, 2003... Jl. of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching (2004) 22(4), 401-402 Page 8: arrows added: The program RANDNO simulates the repeated rolling of one die 120 times and then tallies the frequencies for 1 through 6. The simulation...