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    AuthorHourigan, Mairead (17)Leavy, Aisling (16)McMahon, Aine (8)O'Donoghue, John (3)Carroll, Claire (1)... View MoreSubject
    Mathematics (21)
    Teaching (11)Children (3)Education (3)Data (2)... View MoreDate Issued2010 - 2017 (16)2004 - 2009 (5)

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    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 ...
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    Using architecture as a context to enhance students' understanding of symmetry 

    Hourigan, Mairead; Leavy, Aisling (AAMT [Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers], 2017)
    Working within the context of a contest to find the most beautiful tourist attraction in the world, Year 5 students investigate the most symmetric building from a short-list of three iconic buildings. This involves ...
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    Facilitating inquiry based learning in mathematics teacher education 

    Leavy, Aisling; Hourigan, Mairead; McMahon, Aine (SMEC [Science and Mathematics Education Conference], 2010)
    A driving question in teacher education centers on how to help prospective teachers become expert teachers. The absence of a shared professional curriculum to prepare teachers to teach mathematics combined with the difficulty ...
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    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 ...
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    Children as data detectives 

    Leavy, Aisling; Hourigan, Mairead; McMahon, Aine (INTO [Irish National Teachers Organisation], 2012)
    Transforming the teaching of data Is your experience of teaching data less than exciting? Do you think there is more to teaching data than making bar charts of children’s favourite colours? And pictograms of modes of ...
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    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 ...
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    Crime scene investigation in the classroom 

    Hourigan, Mairead; Leavy, Aisling; McMahon, Aine (INTO [Irish National Teachers Organisation], 2012)
    The strand unit of Representing and Interpreting Data (Primary School Mathematics Curriculum, 1999) sets out objectives which emphasise the need for children to experience genuine data investigations. Investigations may ...
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    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)
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    Compairing means 

    Leavy, Aisling; McMahon, Aine; Hourigan, Mairead (INTO [Irish National Teachers Organisation], 2012)
    A classroom mathematical exploration of the mean In this article, we outline a series of explorations with data, spanning between 3 and 5 lessons, to develop conceptual understanding of the mean. These explorations were ...
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    Crossing boundaries into secondary mathematics concepts: The case of functions 

    Hourigan, Mairead; Leavy, Aisling (St. Patricks College, Dublin, 2013)
    This paper reports on the use of a particular function machine which was based on the context of the ‘faulty oven’ to develop conceptual understanding of the concept of function among 4th class children. While the concept ...
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