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The Metacognitive Behaviour of Mathematics Undergraduates when Solving Calculus Problems

The research team for this project included Keith Jones, Keith Hirst and Stephen Hegedus.

This project was supported by ESRC award R00429524142

Thesis

Analysing the metacognitive behaviour of mathematics undergraduates solving single and multi-variable integrals
by Stephen Hegedus
Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Southampton, School of Education, 1998

Publications

Hegedus, S. (1999), Advanced Mathematical Thinking. In L. Bills (Ed.), Proceedings of the Conference of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics, King's College London, UK, February, 1999. pp 89-94

Hegedus, S. (1998), The Construction of the ROME model for analysing the Metacognitive Behaviour of Mathematics Undergraduates. Proceedings of the International Conference for the Teaching of Mathematics, Samos98, Samos, Greece, John Wiley & Sons, July, 1998

Hegedus, S. (1997), Advanced Mathematical Thinking, Metacognition and The Calculus. Paper presented at the Conference of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics, Bristol: UK, 1997

Hegedus, S. (1996), Analysing the Metacognitive Behaviour of Undergraduates. Paper presented at the 8th International Conference of Mathematics Education (ICME8), Seville, Spain, July 1996.

Hegedus, S. (1996), Analysing the Metacognitive Behaviour of Undergraduates in the Domain of Calculus. Paper presented at the Joint Conference of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics and the Association of Mathematics Education Tutors, Loughborough: UK, 1996

Hegedus, S. (1996), Analysing Verbal Data. Paper presented at the Joint Conference of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics and the Association of Mathematics Education Tutors, Working Group: Interviewing, Loughborough: UK, 1996.

Conference Presentations

8th International Conference of Mathematics Education (ICME8)

British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics

International Conference for the Teaching of Mathematics, Samos98

Related CRME Projects

CalGeo: teaching calculus using dynamic geometric tools
This project is supported by a grant from the EU, award: 11892-CP-1-2004-1-GR-COMENIUS-C21

The School-University Transition in Mathematics
The project was supported by a British Council 'Treaty of Windsor' Grant.

Students' Conceptions of Proof

Psychology of Experimental Mathematics

Some relevant background literature to this project:

Cornu, B. (1991), Limits. In D. Tall (Ed.), Advanced Mathematical Thinking (pp. 153-166). Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Dubinsky, E. (1991), Reflective Abstraction in advanced mathematical thinking. In D. Tall (Ed.), Advanced Mathematical Thinking (pp 95-123). Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Sfard, A. (1989), Transition from operational to structural conception: The notion of function revisited. In G. Vergnaud, J. Rogalski & M. Artigue (Eds.), Proceedings of the
13th International Conference for the Psychology of Mathematics Education
, 151-158. Paris, France.

Tall, D. (Ed.) (1991), Advanced Mathematical Thinking. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Tall, D. & Vinner, S. (1981), Concept image and concept definition in mathematics, with particular reference to limits and continuity, Educational Studies in Mathematics, 12, 151-169.


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