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Title: UNDERSTANDING INSTRUCTIONAL CAPACITY FOR HIGH SCHOOL GEOMETRY AS A SYSTEMIC PROBLEM THROUGH STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS
This paper reports an ongoing effort to address the problem of instructional capacity for high school geometry from a systems improvement perspective. In an effort to understand the system that contains the high school geometry instructional capacity problem, we identified key stakeholders and conducted preliminary interviews to learn about the problem from their perspective. We use these interview data to describe the system in more detail and to identify six major factors contributing to the high school geometry instructional capacity problem.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1725837
PAR ID:
10289329
Author(s) / Creator(s):
; ; ; ;
Editor(s):
Sacristán, A; Cortés_Zavala, J; Ruiz_Arias, P
Publisher / Repository:
Forty_Second_Meeting_of_the_North_American_Chapter_of_the_International_Group_for_the_Psychology_of_Mathematics_Education
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Mathematics Education Across Cultures: Proceedings of the 42nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education
ISBN:
978-1-7348057-0-3
Page Range / eLocation ID:
620-627
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
Geometry and Geometrical and Spatial Thinking, University Mathematics, Teacher Education - Preservice, Systemic Change
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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