New ZDM Article

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I’m excited to share my new article is now available for free online!

de Araujo, Z., Otten, S. A., & Birisci, S.+ (2017). Teacher-created videos in a flipped mathematics class: digital curriculum materials or lesson enactments? ZDM Mathematics Education, online first.

This article is part of our Flipped Mathematics Project and investigates whether a flipped mathematics teacher’s creation of videos is best characterized as design or implementation. We also suggest flipped mathematics classrooms might require a rethinking of Remillard and Heck’s (2014) enacted mathematics framework. Here’s the abstract from our article:

The rise of digital resources has had profound effects on mathematics curricula and there has been a concurrent increase in teachers flipping their instruction—that is, assigning instructional videos or multimedia for students to watch as homework and completing problem or exercise sets in class rather than vice versa. These changes have created a need to better understand not only the features and learning affordances of these videos but also the phenomena of instructional videos taking the place of textbooks altogether. Drawing on an enacted mathematics curriculum framework, this article reports on a study of a mathematics teacher who implemented flipped instruction and created her own instructional videos and multimedia resources as replacements of printed textbooks. We examined the relationship between the teacher’s printed textbook and the digital curriculum materials she used with her flipped mathematics classroom. We also explored her role in creating the digital curriculum materials and the ways in which those materials were used in-class. The case reveals similarities between the new material design and conventional textbooks and it also illustrates the teacher’s simultaneous work designing and enacting digital curriculum materials. The broad issue of considering videos as curriculum materials rather than only as instructional representations is discussed.

New TEEM Article

TEEM 8My newest publication is now available here.

I, J. Y*., & de Araujo, Z. (2017). Slowing down the in the moment decision-making process: The case of one mathematics teacher and one English learner. Teaching for Equity and Excellence in Mathematics, 8(1), 15–22

This article was written with Ji Yeong I while she was a graduate student at Mizzou. Here’s the abstract:

Teachers have to make many in-the-moment decisions when teaching. We investigated one teacher’s decisions in response to the difference between the intended meaning of a mathematical problem and her student’s understanding. The student—an English language learner—had a different interpretation of the mathematical scenario related to one particular clause in the problem that was, ironically, intended to be explanatory but ended up obscuring intended meaning and therefore impacted the student’s solution. In order to reflect on the teacher’s decisions, we include a vignette that illustrates the teacher’s tensions when making her instructional decisions. The vignette is followed by the teacher’s rationale for her decisions and an analysis of the episode. We invite readers to participate in her decision-making process and explore impacts of each decision.

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