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  • Teaching Mathematics to International Students in Higher Education

    Creator:
    Valenciano, Julissa C.
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    Institutions of higher education have experienced a rapid increase in international student enrollment within a short period of time, especially in mathematics classrooms. It is therefore important for instructors to have the knowledge and skills to support international students in the learning of mathematics. There are few research studies of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , instructor, and researcher. I also extend my sincere thanks to committee members, Dr. Thomas Dick, Dr

  • A Korean elementary teacher's beliefs about teaching and learning and its impact on interactions and norms in mathematics classroom

    Creator:
    Cho, Cheong-soo
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    This study described how and why a Korean elementary teacher taught mathematics as he did. Specifically, the study sought to describe his beliefs about the teaching and learning of mathematics and relate them to patterns of classroom interaction and norms. An ethnographic inquiry guided the study of one third grade...
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    Dissertation
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    orderly, think freely; (b) teaching mathematics with understanding; (c) manipulative activities and

  • Graphing calculators in college calculus : an examination of teachers' conceptions and instructional practice

    Creator:
    Barton, Susan Dale
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    The study examined classroom instructional practices and teacher's professed conceptions about teaching and learning college calculus in relationship to the implementation of scientific-programmable-graphics (SPG) calculators. The study occurred at a university not affiliated with any reform project. The participants were not the catalysts seeking to implement calculus reform, but expressed...
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    Dissertation
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    committee, Dr. William Denison, Dr. Thomas Dick, Dr. Dianne Erickson, Dr. Margaret Niess, and Dr. David

  • Feedforward noise cancellation techniques

    Creator:
    Yang, Bangda
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    Supply noise is one of the major considerations in almost all analog building blocks. In the past, adequate supply rejection is usually achieved with circuit isolation or excess capacitive coupling. However, this brute force method requires large silicon area and degrades feedback bandwidth. In this study, a method of enhancing...
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    Masters Thesis
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    noise cancellation is derived as: 0( ) 1/OUT GD DB DD m GD V s C C r V g sC     (6

  • Middle school mathematics teachers' subject matter knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge of probability : its relationship to probability instruction

    Creator:
    Swenson, Karen A.
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    As a result of the calls for reform in mathematics education and the ever-changing nature of mathematics, today's teachers face the challenge of teaching unfamiliar content in ways that are equally unfamiliar. In view of this challenge, the purpose of this study was to investigate middle school teachers' subject matter...
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    Dissertation
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    content, (b) held traditional views about mathematics and the learning and teaching of mathematics, (c

  • Covariant derivatives on null submanifolds

    Creator:
    Hickethier, Don
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    The degenerate nature of the metric on null hypersurfaces creates many difficulties when attempting to define a covariant derivative on null submanifolds. This dissertation investigates these challenges and provides a technique for defining a connection on null hypersurfaces in some cases. Recent approaches using decomposition to define a covariant derivative...
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    covariant derivative operator is given for the class of spherically symmetric hypersurfaces. c©Copyright

  • Connections between combinatorics of permutations and algorithms and geometry

    Creator:
    Wills, Dean Connable
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    Geometric Problems become increasingly intractable and difficult to visualize as the number of dimensions increases beyond three. Inductions from lower dimensional spaces are possible yet often awkward. This thesis shows how elementary linear algebra, vector calculus, and combinatorics offer improved methods for calculating the dihedral angles of n-simplicies and proving...
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    Dissertation
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    several desirable properties for such maps and show how they may aid computation. c©Copyright by Dean

  • The local conservation laws of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

    Creator:
    Barrett, Johnner
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    The nonlinear Schrödinger equation is a well-known partial differential equation that provides a successful model in nonlinear optic theory, as well as other applications. In this dissertation, following a survey of mathematical literature, the geometric theory of differential equations is applied to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The main result of...
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    Dissertation
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    Bressler, Jason Smith, Dr. John Leahy, Dr. Juha Pohjanpelto, Dr. Tevian Dray, Dr. Tom Dick, Fly and most

  • Transfer and meta-cognitive intervention in conceptually non-isomorphic linear algebra problem settings

    Creator:
    Burger, Lance D.
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    This dissertation arose out of an awareness of difficulties undergraduate linear algebra students encounter when solving linear algebra problems from novel, non-isomorphic settings, even when the problems could be solved with matrix representations and similar procedures as problems from a more familiar setting. This mixed-methods study utilized both traditional and...
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    Dissertation
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    Gilster; loyal friend James C. Taylor; and mother-in-law, Jirapha Chabottakot. Last, this dissertation

  • Creating Community: A Case Study of Students’ Experiences in Inquiry-Based Learning

    Creator:
    Schaub, Branwen
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    We now have broad consensus in the mathematics education research community that active, inquiry-based classrooms provide a wealth of learning benefits for students (Freeman et al., 2014; Laursen et al., 2014; Theobald et al., 2020). Classrooms that utilize inquiry throughout the entire structure of the course, as opposed to the...
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    Dissertation
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    ) ............................................................................................. 67 Figure 5-7: Proof of Statement 1 (c