Would we teach without technology? A professor’s experience of teaching mathematics education incorporating the internet
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The intent of this study is to provide information that can be useful in implementing rational changes to mathematics teacher education. In this paper, I present an approach to teach a graduate mathematics education course incorporating technology, more specifically, discussion forums, i.e. asynchronized threaded discussions via the internet. In this study, both survey of the teachers’ background and transcripts of online discussions are used. However, the main focus is on the analysis of online discourse. The data analysis is concentrated on three areas: the math phobia issue, the equity issue and teachers" beliefs about the instructional use of technology. Three examples are described of the impact that the use of a discussion forum had on the teaching and learning experiences. Reflection on the experience and the implications for teacher educators are presented.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it