Mathematics Education Group Presents in Greece and Turkey
Dr. Jere Confrey, Joseph D. Moore Distinguished Professor of Mathematics Education and Senior Research Fellow at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation and colleagues presented on the topic of Learning Trajectories at the International Conference of the Psychology of Mathematics Education in Thessaloniki, Greece followed by another seminar at Pamukkale University in Denizli, Turkey.
Dr. Confrey and Dr. Maloney, Senior Research Fellow, presented “Equipartitioning/Splitting as a Foundation of Rational Number Reasoning” unveiling a new approach to rational number reasoning, division and multiplication, a set of concepts and skills that include fractions and ratios. Student success in higher-level mathematics depends on mastery of these ideas. Gemma Mojica, a graduate student, presented "Pre-service Elementary Teachers' Utilization of an Equipartitioning Learning Trajectory", which was the topic of her dissertation studying elementary teacher candidates in the College of Education. Together, the papers outline a major new approach to assisting teachers in using evidence-based research on student learning to provide a more precise diagnostic profile of their students' learning progress.
More information about this topic and the other research that Dr. Confrey’s research group, GISMO (Generating Increased Science and Math Learning) is conducting can be found online at http://gismo.fi.ncsu.edu/.