Browsing by Author "Leavy, Aisling"
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'If you're doubting yourself then, what's the fun in that?' an exploration of why prospective secondary mathematics teachers perceive statistics as difficult
Leavy, Aisling; Hannigan, Ailish; Fitzmaurice, Olivia (Taylor & Francis, 2013)Most research into prospective secondary mathematics teachers’ attitudes towards statistics indicates generally positive attitudes but a perception that statistics is difficult to learn. These perceptions of statistics as ... -
Indexing distributions of data: preservice teachers’ notions of representativeness (Pre-published version)
Leavy, Aisling (Wiley, 2004)The purpose of the study was to identify strategies used by preservice elementary teachers to index distributions of data. A secondary purpose of the study was to investigate whether representational form influenced the ... -
Insights into informal inferential reasoning in the primary classroom
Leavy, Aisling (IPMS [International Programme in the Mathematical Sciences], 2009) -
Insights into the approaches of young children when making informal inferences about data
Leavy, Aisling; Sloane, Finbarr (CERME [Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education], 2017)There is growing awareness of the statistical reasoning abilities of young children. In this study the informal inferential reasoning skills of a class of 5-6 year old children are examined as they reason about data in the ... -
Introduction to the papers of TWG05: probability and statistics education
Leavy, Aisling; Hahn, Corinne; Eichler, Andreas; Kazak, Sibel; Primi, Caterina (CERME [Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education], 2015)TWG gathered 37 participants from 16 countries. 22 papers and 11 posters were accepted. We started with two ice-breaker activities. The first one allowed participants to introduce themselves. During the second activity, ... -
Lesson study in mathematics: Authentic assessment of inquiry learning
Leavy, Aisling; Hourigan, Mairead; Carroll, Claire (DCU [Dublin City University], 2014)Classrooms are complex and unpredictable learning environments. Preparing future teachers to respond to the fast changing needs of learners in mathematics classrooms is the challenge of teacher educators. In our paper, we ... -
Lesson study in teacher preparation: driving inquiry and teacher noticing
Leavy, Aisling; Hourigan, Mairead; Ó Ceallaigh, T.J. (WALS [World Association of Lesson Studies], 2018) -
Let infants’ knowledge of pattern grow
Hourigan, Mairead; Leavy, Aisling (INTO [Irish National Teacher's Organisation], 2011) -
Mathematics teaching matters: making complex mathematical ideas accessible to primary level children
Leavy, Aisling; McMahon, Aine; Hourigan, Mairead (St. Patrick’s College, Dublin, 2011)Reform of mathematics curricula has led to the expansion of topics such as algebra, data and probability being taught to primary level children. This new subject matter can be challenging for primary teachers to teach as ... -
Next steps in statistics education: identifying teacher professional development needs for teaching the data analysis component of primary level mathematics
Leavy, Aisling (IASE [International Association of Statistics Education], 2009)This study reveals the pedagogical decision making undertaken when designing instruction for primary level statistics. We report on the activity of five groups of preservice teachers when engaging in Lesson Study and ... -
A path analysis of the relationship among critical motivational variables and achievement in reform-oriented mathematics curriculum
Leavy, Aisling; Middleton, James A.; Leader, Lars (Routledge, 2013)This study investigated the relationship among critical motivational variables and mathematics achievement as middle grades students engaged in a reform-oriented curriculum, Mathematics in Context. We tested 327 students ... -
A picture is worth a thousand words: Insights into graphicacy skills of primary prospective preservice teachers
Leavy, Aisling (St. Patrick's College, Dublin, 2009)Graphs are an integral component of primary and secondary level mathematical experiences as a part of the probability and statistics strand. A review of curriculum implementation in primary mathematics revealed that, ... -
Practical problems: using literature to teach statistics
Hourigan, Mairead; Leavy, Aisling (NCTM [National Council of Teachers of Mathematics], 2016) -
Pre-service primary teachers’ geometric thinking: Is pre-tertiary mathematics education building sufficiently strong foundations? (Pre-published version)
Hourigan, Mairead; Leavy, Aisling (Routledge [Taylor & Francis], 2017)Teacher knowledge is a critical focus of educational research in light of the potential impact of teacher knowledge on student learning. The dearth of research exploring entry-level pre-service teachers’ geometric knowledge ... -
Preface: statistics in early childhood and primary education
Leavy, Aisling; Meletiou-Mavrotheris, Maria; Paparistodemou, Efi (Springer Nature, 2018) -
Primary mathematics teacher education: Teaching at the heart of learning
Hourigan, Mairead; Leavy, Aisling (SMEC [Science and Mathematics Education Conference], 2012)In this presentation we use the theme of teaching at the heart of learning to illustrate the opportunities for pre-service teacher learning. The presentation reports on the outcomes of classroom based inquiry in primary ... -
Problem posing and primary pre-service teachers: An initial study
Leavy, Aisling; O'Shea, John (St. Patrick’s College, Dublin, 2011)Problem solving is an important component of primary mathematics. Central to the activity of problem solving is the task of problem posing. This study examines the skills and predispositions of pre-service teachers when ... -
Prospective primary teachers understandings of graphicacy (Pre-published version)
Leavy, Aisling; Sloane, Finbarr (Springer Verlag [Germany], 2016)This paper reports on the statistical knowledge of 456 entry-level, prospective teachers relating to data representation. We report on the responses of participants to three items sourced from the OECD Programme for ... -
Providing challenge in pattern work in the infant classes
Hourigan, Mairead; Leavy, Aisling; McMahon, Aine (NCE-MSTL [National Centre for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching and Learning], University of Limerick, 2012) -
Review of the Droichead teacher induction pilot programme (Report)
Leavy, Aisling; Smyth, Emer; Conway, Paul F.; Darmody, Merike; Banks, Joanne; Watson, Dorothy (ESRI [The Economic and Social Research Institute], 2016)