Autores - Editores Naresh, Nirmala

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Researchers who have carried out studies pertaining to mental computation and everyday mathematics point out that adults and children reason intuitively based upon experiences within specific contexts; they use invented strategies of their own to solve real-life problems. We draw upon research areas of mental computation and everyday mathematics to report on a study that investigated adults’ use of mental mathematics in everyday settings. In this paper, we report on one adult’s use of mental computation at work and highlight the role of context and context related parameters in his mental mathematical activities.

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Naresh, Nirmala y Presmeg, Normal

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2012

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The essence of this paper is to present a self-study that resulted in the awareness of discrepancies that existed between our beliefs and practices as teacher educators and educational researchers. On the one hand, we assessed the impact of our teaching on participants of a professional development program. We analyzed the participants’ abilities to explore student voices as input for improving the teaching of mathematics. On the other hand, as we categorized and characterized our participants’ reflections using the tools of qualitative inquiry, the end effect was to distort and even silence those voices as an input for improving our own instruction, denying participants both agency and identity. This presented us with a living contradiction since this stance conflicted with our belief that learners deserve both agency and identity.

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Cox, Dana, Silva, Beatriz, Keiser, Jane y Naresh, Nirmala

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2014

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This paper explores the mathematical ideas that emerge across two workplace settings, namely street vending and bus conducting. The purpose of this study was to delineate a trajectory describing potential mathematical structures underlying bus conducting and street vending activities and to extract a conceptual model that could explain the nature of the practitioners’ mathematical knowledge and its connection to formal mathematics. We conducted a meta-analysis of the problem solving behavior and narratives of street vendors and bus conductors in two geographic sites in Beirut, Lebanon and Chennai, India. Principled by Vergnaud’s theory of conceptual fields, the researchers examined heuristics-in-action that transpired as a result of practitioners’ engagement in their respective work situations.

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Chahine, Iman y Naresh, Nirmala

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2013

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When thinking about mathematics, seldom does one think about culture, context, history, or diversity. Many teachers believe that there is no place for such constructs in their mathematics classrooms. As an ethnomathematician, my primary goal is to find meaningful ways to bring components of ethnomathematics into the mainstream mathematics curriculum and classrooms. In this paper, I describe key aspects of a mathematics curriculum that was designed to promote meaningful connections between ethnomathematics theory and practice and highlight how this curriculum might help address the key tenets of a critical ethnomathematics curriculum.

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Naresh, Nirmala

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2015

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As our society continues to become more diverse in race, culture, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation, the educational systems we have in place must also revise their purpose and their context. An important conviction of social justice pedagogy is that teachers, as well as students, are a part of the solution to injustice. Teacher education programs need to equip teachers with the empathy, consideration, and skills necessary to appreciate all the children that comprise their classroom, their school, and their community. We merged the research domains of statistics and social justice to design a teacher education course – the key goal was to develop a community enabling teachers to investigate social issues with a critical eye, so that the inequities become apparent and ideas for change may be discussed.

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Naresh, Nirmala y Poling, Lisa.

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2015

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