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The design space of student learning: Who is accountable and accountable for what? (Pre-published version)
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Elementary and middle grade students’ constructions of typicality
(Elsevier, 2011)This study addresses the measures chosen by students when selecting or constructing indices to properties of distributions of data. A series of individual teaching experiments were conducted to provide insight into the ... -
"ESRI research reviews new support programme for newly qualified teachers"
(ESRI [Economic & Social Research Institute], 2016)A new research report, ‘Review of the Droichead Teacher Induction Pilot Programme’, was published today by the ESRI and the Teaching Council,providing an in-depth examination of a new approach to teacher induction in primary ... -
Exploring probability concepts using a mini games environment: Ideas for primary and secondary classrooms
(NCE-MSTL [National Centre for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching and Learning], University of Limerick, 2014) -
Facilitating inquiry based learning in mathematics teacher education
(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 ... -
Geometric growing patterns: what’s the rule?
(AAMT [Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers], 2015)We explore several examples of the way in which to use geometrical growing patterns. Examples are situated within interesting contexts to elicit algebraic generalisations by working through a five-phase analysis process. -
Getting the balance right: the equals sign
(INTO [Irish National Teacher's Organisation], 2011)Much of the number work carried out in primary classrooms contains elements of algebraic reasoning. In fact, equals sign work in junior and senior infants underpins much of the algebraic reasoning used in later years. In ... -
Gifted students’ understanding of statistics: analysis of data arising from a small group teaching experiment
(Routledge, 2003)The principal objective of the study was to gain insight into cognitive processes related to three gifted students’ understanding of data. Small group teaching experiment methodology was used to uncover students’ understanding ... -
Having fun with functions
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Identifying the mystery player: Comparing body measurement data of the Irish soccer and rugby teams
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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
(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 ... -
Incentivising advanced mathematics study at upper secondary level: the case of bonus points in Ireland.
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-08-22)Secondary level mathematics education in Ireland has recently experienced a period of significant change with the introduction of new curricula and the addition of an incentive to study upper secondary mathematics at the ... -
Indexing distributions of data: preservice teachers’ notions of representativeness (Pre-published version)
(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
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Insights into the approaches of young children when making informal inferences about data
(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 ... -
Integrating mathematics and science in secondary classrooms
(BSRLM, 2018-06)This theoretical paper discusses the value of integrating mathematics and science in the secondary classroom, understanding gained from previous studies in this field, and the means by which lessons of this nature can be ... -
Introduction to the papers of TWG05: probability and statistics education
(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
(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
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Let infants’ knowledge of pattern grow
(INTO [Irish National Teacher's Organisation], 2011)