Nahid Golafshani

Laurentian University

To promote the implementation of manipulatives into mathematics instruction, this research project examined how the instructional practices of four Grade 9 applied mathematics teachers related to their beliefs about the use of manipulatives in teaching mathematics, its effects on students' learning, and enabling and disabling factors. Teacher quest...

Changes in first and second movement in research methodology, led to emergence and development of quantitative and qualitative research methods. Second movement in research methodology emerged with an objective of rectifying certain shortfalls in the first movement, however, the second movement, itself, was not exempt from some shortfalls. These ha...

Changes in first and second movement in research methodology, led to emergence and development of quantitative and qualitative research methods. Second movement in research methodology emerged with an objective of rectifying certain shortfalls in the first movement, however, the second movement, itself, was not exempt from some shortfalls. These ha...

Changes in first and second movement in research methodology, led to emergence and development of quantitative and qualitative research methods. Second movement in research methodology emerged with an objective of rectifying certain shortfalls in the first movement, however, the second movement, itself, was not exempt from some shortfalls. These ha...

Changes in first and second movement in research methodology, led to emergence and development of quantitative and qualitative research methods. Second movement in research methodology emerged with an objective of rectifying certain shortfalls in the first movement, however, the second movement, itself, was not exempt from some shortfalls. These ha...

The use of reliability and validity are common in quantitative research and now it is reconsidered in the qualitative research paradigm. Since reliability and validity are rooted in positivist perspective then they should be redefined for their use in a naturalistic approach. Like reliability and validity as used in quantitative research are provid...

this paper will discuss teachers' conceptions about the nature of mathematics and its influences on their teaching practices through the relevant literature. It will particularly refer to Hersh (1986) -- focussing on the nature of mathematics, teachers' conceptions of nature of mathematics, and the effects of teachers' conceptions of nature of math...

"Narratives are verbalized memories of past or ongoing experiences" (Heath, 1986, p. 84). This narrative of a Middle Eastern girl, now grown to be a mother of two, describes the cost of pursuing education abroad. The difficult process of learning a second language, letting go of an old identity, living in the indefinable "in-betweens" space, return...