Browsing by Author "Leavy, Aisling"
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Varying your approaches to teaching variables
Leavy, Aisling; Hourigan, Mairead; McMahon, Aine (INTO [Irish National Teachers Organisation], 2011)Our previous article Getting the balance right: The equals sign presented activities which can be used to introduce children to translating and solving word problems using equations where the unknown is represented with a ... -
Having fun with functions
Hourigan, Mairead; Leavy, Aisling (INTO [Irish National Teacher's Organisation], 2011) -
Elementary and middle grade students’ constructions of typicality
Leavy, Aisling; Middleton, James A. (Elsevier, 2011)This study addresses the measures chosen by students when selecting or constructing indices to properties of distributions of data. A series of individual teaching experiments were conducted to provide insight into the ... -
Facilitating inquiry based learning in mathematics teacher education
Leavy, Aisling; Hourigan, Mairead; McMahon, Aine (SMEC [Science and Mathematics Education Conference], 2010)A driving question in teacher education centers on how to help prospective teachers become expert teachers. The absence of a shared professional curriculum to prepare teachers to teach mathematics combined with the difficulty ... -
Teaching statistics at the primary level: identifying obstacles and challenges in teacher preparation from looking at teaching
Leavy, Aisling (IASE [International Association for Statistical Education], 2010)Preparing preservice primary teachers to teach statistics is a complex endeavor. The challenge is to enrich content knowledge, advance pedagogical understandings, and develop the types of thinking and dispositions necessary ... -
Next steps in statistics education: identifying teacher professional development needs for teaching the data analysis component of primary level mathematics
Leavy, Aisling (IASE [International Association of Statistics Education], 2009)This study reveals the pedagogical decision making undertaken when designing instruction for primary level statistics. We report on the activity of five groups of preservice teachers when engaging in Lesson Study and ... -
Insights into informal inferential reasoning in the primary classroom
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A picture is worth a thousand words: Insights into graphicacy skills of primary prospective preservice teachers
Leavy, Aisling (St. Patrick's College, Dublin, 2009)Graphs are an integral component of primary and secondary level mathematical experiences as a part of the probability and statistics strand. A review of curriculum implementation in primary mathematics revealed that, ... -
Coordinating student learning and teacher activity – The case of Savannah: Motivating an understanding of representativeness through examination of distributions of data
Leavy, Aisling (St. Patrick's College, Dublin, 2007)This research study investigated the measures chosen by five 4th to 8th grade students when selecting statistical measures to describe distributions of data. Over the course of eight weeks of instruction, individual teaching ... -
Indexing distributions of data: preservice teachers’ notions of representativeness (Pre-published version)
Leavy, Aisling (Wiley, 2004)The purpose of the study was to identify strategies used by preservice elementary teachers to index distributions of data. A secondary purpose of the study was to investigate whether representational form influenced the ... -
Gifted students’ understanding of statistics: analysis of data arising from a small group teaching experiment
Leavy, Aisling (Routledge, 2003)The principal objective of the study was to gain insight into cognitive processes related to three gifted students’ understanding of data. Small group teaching experiment methodology was used to uncover students’ understanding ... -
Scholarly electronic journals: economic and technical issues
Leavy, Aisling; Ganesh, Tirupalavanam G.; Glass, Gene V.; Andrews, Sandra; Middleton, James A.; Jennings, Tara A. (Arizona State University, College of Education, 2000)In this paper we discuss scholarly communication and the emergence of electronic journals. Scholarly electronic journals are expanding their influence. Currently, about 70 peer-reviewed scholarly journals in education are ...