Sentences with phrase «mathematical explanations»

The literature contains little mathematics education research on teacher preparation experiences that engage prospective teachers in developing mathematical explanations in an online learning environment.

Most have achieved their fortunes by compounding a moderate but consistent rate of return over a long period of time.There is a simple mathematical explanation for why these two factors are most important in building wealth:

The research question was as follows: «Do prospective teachers improve in development of their own mathematical explanations of their solutions to nonroutine challenge problems when they engage in a virtual learning experience?»

Such abilities include not only solving mathematical problems but also providing mathematical explanations and justifications.

An international team of scientists has developed a relatively simple mathematical explanation for the rogue ocean waves that can develop seemingly out of nowhere to sink ships and overwhelm oil platforms with walls of water as much as 25 meters high.

Even Newton's law of gravity turned out to be just a good mathematical explanation; the absolute space and invariable flow of time he believed in just aren't an accurate representation of the universe we live in.

Now, a new mathematical explanation suggests the sound results from the partial collapse of tiny gas bubbles in the joints» fluid.

Teachers with more mathematical knowledge for teaching were more likely to supply mathematical explanations, to use better concrete models of mathematical processes, and to «translate» more accurately between students» everyday language and mathematical language.

Assessing elementary prospective teachers» mathematical explanations after engagement in online mentoring modules.

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The current study focused on prospective teachers» development of mathematical explanations in online learning environments.

Raters discern whether students provide mathematical explanations, either spontaneously or at their teacher's urging.

Black Hole Revelations While Strominger co-authored a 1996 paper that offered a mathematical explanation for how mirror symmetry works, his emphasis over the past two decades has been on using string theory to gain insights into black holes.

The mathematical explanation has its roots in the work of the 17th century Dutch mathematician Huygens.

In 1998 Watts and Steven Strogatz, a professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University, published a paper in Nature that did what de Sola Pool and Kochen hadn't done: It provided a mathematical explanation for how random people living far apart can be linked by a handful of connections.

The mathematical explanation is that of all irrational numbers, φ is, in a very precise, technical sense, the furthest from being representable as a fraction.

But a team led by anthropologist Rahul Oka at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana wondered whether there was a mathematical explanation for why fewer people proportionally are lost to violence nowadays.

As a scholar of math teaching, Dr. Dieckmann's research interest is in the area of mathematical explanation (oral and written), especially for linguistically diverse students at the middle and high school levels, collaborating with Kenji Hakuta at Understanding Language.

Ultimately, this study contributes to a better understanding of online teacher preparation experiences and how these experiences contribute to the development of prospective teachers» mathematical explanations.

We began to think about the prospective teachers» development in their mathematical explanations and justifications as a result of their participation in the VFS and the mentoring experience.

When we were thinking about ways to study growth in the prospective teachers» mathematical explanations, we saw distinct parallels between the Math Forum's problem - specific rubric and the eight SMPs described in mathematics education reform documents.

Therefore, I will skip the mathematical explanations and more like emphasise on the ways traders use them to follow the trend.

This dual occupation led Roth to express that he was looking for ``... a mathematical explanation of [abstract] art, an explanation which I hope will clarify the «subject of the artist... The subject of art is reality and the act of painting is a search for reality; a search for understanding.»

This general pattern was observed in the nineteenth century, but can not be understood with any simple or mathematical explanation: it can only be calculated with digital computers.