papserRME Conference, 23-25 September 2011, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

Plenaries

Keynote 1 - Koeno Gravemeijer: Helping students construct more formal mathematics

Keynote 2 - Doug Clements: Learning Trajectories - The Core of Standards, Teaching & Learning

Keynote 3 - Mary Pittman: Linking policy and practice through learning trajectories

Keynote 4 - Bill Jacob: Functions, Covariation, and the Cartesian Connection: Examining Two Learning Trajectories for Pre-Service
Secondary Teachers

Plenary - David Webb: Informed classroom practice: Progress and challenges

 

Parallel sessions

     
Speaker Title Grades  Abstract  
 Handout  Presentation and papers

Mieke Abels (Friday)

A Learning Trajectory for Fractions with Low-Achieving Students elementary (K-6) abstract  handout presentation

Mieke Abels (Sunday)

Surface area without length times width middle (6-8) abstract  handout  

Jeffrey Choppin

A teacher’s local theory of instruction: The development of teacher knowledge through enacting challenging tasks middle (6-8) abstract   presentation

Amanda Geist

Division of Fractions: A Learning Trajectory Designed to Promote Conceptual Understanding middle (6-8) abstract handout presentation

Monica Geist

Hypothesis Testing in Statistics: A Learning Trajectory Designed to Promote Theoretical Understanding (post) secondary abstract handout presentation
Debra I. Johanning & Kimberly S. Shockey Local Instructional Theories and Routines of Practice: Supporting Teachers to Engage Students in Fraction-Based Algorithmic Thinking  middle (6-8) abstract   presentation

Raymond Johnson

Contexts and Models for Multiplying, Dividing, and Factoring Polynomials  (post) secondary abstract   presentation

Meg Meyer

Designing a Learning Progression on Tangles  elementary (K6) abstract

handout

handout circle grid

 

presentation

 

 

Sonia Palha, Rijkje Dekker, Bernadette van Hout-Wolters & Koeno Gravemeijer

Geometrical reasoning and proving in small groups: the role of the tasks (post) secondary abstract   presentation

Fred Peck & Jennifer Muller

Length times width equals area, and line times line equals parabola: Incorporating two RME models into a cohesive learning trajectory for quadratic functions  (post) secondary abstract  
presentation

Cynthia Pray

Exploring Numeracy Throughout the Day elementary (K6) abstract    

Michelle K. Reed, Susann M. Mathews & Aina Appova

Using Japanese Lesson Study as a Method to Investigate Students’ Learning Trajectories elementary (K-6) abstract handout  presentation

Kevin J. Reins

The Great Balancing Activity: A Learning Progression for Descriptive Statistics Which Supports Learning With Understanding and Encourages Sense Making (post) secondary abstract handout  paper presentation

Yukata Saburi & Takehiro Tsubokawa

Reform trials of mathematics education and teacher training in Fukui, Japan middle (6-8) abstract handout

presentation 1

presentation 2

 

 Dorothea Steinke

The Ten Percent Who Never Get It: Number Sense Assessment of developmental math students at a community college and of grades 3-8 at a charter school elementary (K-6)  abstract    

Michelle Stephan et al.

A proposed instructional theory for introducing integer concepts and the operations middle (6-8) abstract handout presentation
Steve Thornton & Joanne Statton Make it Count - Improving mathematical outcomes for Australian Indigenous students elementary (K-6) abstract handout presentation

Henk Van der Kooij

What mathematics is important for (future) work? (post) secondary abstract

handout area

handout proportionality

presentation