Browsing by Subject "mathematics"
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(2013-08-06)The research question that I posed for this investigation is how the principles of Foucault’s governmentality can shed light on the political discourse on the achievement gaps (AGs) at the federal level. The AGs have been ...
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(2014-04-16)The purpose of this study was to examine differences between first year and preservice elementary mathematics teachers by certification route. First, the instructional practices of 90 first year elementary mathematics ...
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(2021-08-24)An open educational resource (OER) textbook covering calculus for business and social sciences. Topics covered include limits and continuity, The Derivative, curve sketching and optimization, and antidifferentiation, . ...
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(2022-07-14)The purpose of the study was to observe the understanding and motivation of second-grade Tier III students’ achievement in skip-counting patterns by implementing music and non-music learning activities. The case study was ...
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(2014-04-29)A two-article dissertation format is provided. The first article is a literature review of Curriculum-based measurement (CBM) as an intervention and has three purposes: a) describe foundational components of CBM; b) explain ...
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(2016-03-03)The objective of this thesis was to investigate students’ affect towards mathematics and science and their perceptions of hands-on activities as it relates to their motivation to learn during STEM summer camp. In addition ...
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(2013-11-25)Implementing culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) in a mathematics classroom is often recommended by researchers as a strategy for improving mathematical achievement among underrepresented students. This study explores the ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)The purpose of this study was to evaluate one instructional activity that could be used by agricultural science teachers to improve math performance of students, grades 7- 12. The treatment group (11 schools, 218 students) ...
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(2019-07-22)Undergraduate retention in STEM majors has been a longstanding concern with educators. By virtue of the curriculum, mathematics is more prominent in some STEM majors such as Physical science, Computer science, Engineering, ...
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(2015-07-23)The purpose of this dissertation was to add further support to the claim that concurrent reading and mathematics instruction with young children could not only prove to be symbiotic in nature but also could provide a ...
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(2017-07-20)This study explored the development of mathematical expertise among male African American actuaries, within the present hegemonic educational, social and cultural system of the US. Using qualitative methodologies, the ...
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(2017-12-13)The purpose of this study was to impact teachers’ understanding of fact fluency and students’ opportunities to practice their mathematics facts in two third-grade, two fourth-grade and two fifth-grade classes at R. C. Neal ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, )In this work some notions involving continuous mappings of a linear topological space are developed. It is shown that if K is a compact, starshaped subset of a linear topological space and f: K a?Ç K is nonexpansive with ...
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(2016-03-24)Students with disabilities often display patterns of mathematics achievement significantly below grade level, and interventions are needed to address this gap. SuccessMaker Mathematics is an instructional learning system ...
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(2020-08-13)An open educational resource (OER) textbook covering mathematics for business and social sciences. Topics covered include application of common algebraic functions, including polynomial, exponential, logarithmic and ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)A multi-layered periodic structure is investigated for optimal shape design in diffraction gratings. A periodic dielectric material is used as the scattering profile for a planar incident wave. Designing optimal ...
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(2018-04-27)This scholarship is based on research conducted by members of the Knowledge for Algebra Teaching for Equity (KATE) Project, a 5-year National Science Foundation (NSF) funded grant that employed strategies in the context ...
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(2012-10-19)The overarching goal of this dissertation research was to develop and measure the psychometric properties of an instrument to assess preservice teachers’ content knowledge of the function concept embedded in contextual ...
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(2014-03-04)Self-regulated learners continually monitor and adjust the learning process through a recursive loop of forethought, learning enactment, and reflection. The literature review for this study used a systematic approach with ...