Doing the scholarship of teaching and learning in mathematics /
[Book]
edited by Jacqueline M. Dewar and Curtis D. Bennett, Loyola Marymount University
xvi, 210 pages :
illustrations ;
28 cm
MAA notes ;
#83
Includes bibliographical references and index
Understanding SoTL and its potential benefits -- Initiating a SoTL investigation -- Gathering and analyzing evidence -- Resources for pursuing SoTL and going public -- Assessing the effectiveness of classroom visual cues -- (Re)discovering SoTL through a fundamental challenge : helping students transition to college calculus -- A quantitative and qualitative comparison of homework structures in a multivariable calculus class -- Playing games to teach mathematics -- Investigating how students' linking historical events to developments in mathematics changed engagement in a history of mathematics course -- Using SoTL to assess the outcomes of teaching statistics through civic engagement -- A pedagogical odyssey -- Presenting evidence for the field that invented the randomized clinical trial -- Conceptual or computational? Making sense of reading questions in an inverted statistics course -- An investigation into the effectiveness of pre-class reading questions -- Liberal arts mathematics students' beliefs about the nature of mathematics : a case study in survey research -- The mathematics of symmetry and attitudes towards mathematics -- Mathematics research experiences for preservice teachers : investigating the impact on their beliefs -- The question of transfer : investigating how mathematics contributes to a liberal education -- Using SoTL practices to drive curriculum development -- Synthesis of the value and benefits of SoTL experienced by the contributors