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  • Student affect towards mistakes in the context of counting

    Creator:
    McGee, Samantha
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    In this study, I seek to examine undergraduate STEM majors’ beliefs about and attitude towards mistakes in the context of counting. This is a particularly fruitful setting for such an investigation both because combinatorics is widely applicable to various fields such as physics, biology, chemistry, and computer science (Kapur, 1970),...
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    Masters Thesis
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    profound reasoning” as well as “rich mathematical thinking” (Lockwood, 2015, p. 340), which not only

  • Characterizing and Understanding Semiotic Representations in Combinatorics Problems

    Creator:
    De Chenne, Adaline E.
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    Combinatorics is a field of mathematics that concerns enumeration and existence, and its most notable applications are in computer science and statistics. Most students are introduced to combinatorics through counting problems, where they are tasked with determining the cardinality of a set of outcomes. Such problems are well-known for being...
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    Dissertation
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    . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Elise N. Lockwood

  • Students' generalisation of function from single- to multivariable settings

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    Dorko, Allison J.
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    Generalisation is a key component of mathematical activity. Mathematicians often seek general formulae or wonder if a rule that holds in a particular dimension also holds in dimension n. However, generalisation is not limited to professional mathematicians; kindergarteners engage in generalisation when they seek patterns and algebra is sometimes described...
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    Dissertation
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    Multivariable Settings. Abstract approved: _________________________________ Elise Lockwood

  • Listing as a Potential Connection between Sets of Outcomes and Counting Processes

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    Erickson, Sarah A.
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    Counting problems are rich in opportunities for students to make meaningful mathematical connections and develop non-algorithmic thinking; their accessible nature and applications to computer science make counting problems a valuable part of mathematics curricula. However, students struggle in various ways with counting, and while previous studies have indicated that listing...
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    Masters Thesis
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    students (Lockwood, 2013, p. 255

  • Undergraduate Students' Generalizing Activity in Real Analysis : Constructing a General Metric

    Creator:
    Reed, Zackery K.
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    Generalization is a fundamental mathematical practice across all disciplines and content areas (Amit & Klass, 2005; Lannin, 2005; Pierce, 1902; Vygotsky, 1986; Ellis, Lockwood, Tillema & Moore, 2017). While a considerable amount of research has been conducted on students' generalizing activity in algebraic contexts (Amit & Klass 2005; Becker &...
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    Dissertation
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    approved: ________________________________ Elise N. Lockwood Generalization is a

  • Investigating Provers' Understandings of Combinatorial Proof

    Creator:
    Erickson, Sarah A.
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    Enumerative combinatorics is an area of mathematics that is both highly accessible for students and widely applicable to other sciences and areas of mathematics (Kapur, 1970; Lockwood, Wasserman, & Tillema, 2020). One important class of problems in combinatorics is combinatorial proofs of binomial identities, which is a type of proof...
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    Dissertation
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    : ___________________________________________________________ Elise N. Lockwood Enumerative combinatorics is an area of mathematics that

  • 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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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Elise N. Lockwood We now have

  • The Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching of First Year Mathematics Graduate Teaching Assistants : The Case of Exponential Functions

    Creator:
    Keeling, Matthew
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    A teacher's mathematical knowledge for teaching has been shown to have a positive correlation with their students' success (Monk, 1994). So, when half of the students that start out in a STEM major switch out to a non-STEM major before graduation to in large part to instructors pedagogical methods and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , Dr. Tom Dick, Dr. Elise Lockwood, and Dr. Paul Blakemore for their continuous support and

  • The Role of Formulas in Students' Solution Strategies in regard to Combinatorics

    Creator:
    Gordon, Cheyenne M.
    Abstract:
    There are many reasons toward why students withhold such negative mindsets toward the subject of mathematics. This thesis builds upon previously conducted research concerning affect and confidence in mathematical problem solving, confidence that students exhibit about themselves, and combinatorial thinking and activity.
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    Honors College Thesis
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    ” (Lockwood, 2014, p. 300) 9 In this thesis, I explore students’ reasoning about counting problems

  • Student Thoughts on Derivatives of Vector Fields

    Creator:
    Walker, Mesa E.
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    Junior level physics students are familiar with a few types of vector field derivatives, such as divergence and curl, but are typically unfamiliar with how to take a general derivative of a vector field. Three junior-level physics students were interviewed with the open-ended prompt, “How would you think about taking...
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    Capstone Project