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Mathematical Writing
Research can improve teaching and learning. We are working on ways to bridge the research to practice gap and improve outcomes for students.
Disciplinary writing in mathematics provides students with opportunities to engage in mathematical reasoning while deepening their conceptual understanding of mathematics. Math interventions must promote both procedural and conceptual understanding. We study the use of both forms of knowledge as measured via the mathematical writing of students in school settings.
Published Research
Assessing Disciplinary Writing in Both Research and Practice
In the edited book, Assessing Disciplinary Writing in Both Research and Practice (Landau Wright & Hodges; 2023), authors from Lee Pesky Learning Center publish “ A Framework for Evaluating Written Explanations of Numerical Reasoning (Crawford, Quebec Fuentes; Huscroft-D’Angelo, & Rowe), presenting a practical, effective, and efficient framework used to capture the depth and diversity of student reasoning. Application of the Framework to students’ written explanations helps teachers make instructional decisions that can improve students’ mathematical reasoning and communication.
A Framework for Assessing Students’ Written Explanations of Numerical Reasoning
In the edited book, Illuminating and Advancing the Path for Mathematical Writing Research (Colonnese, Casa, & Cardetti; 2023), authors from Lee Pesky Learning Center publish “A Framework for Assessing Students’ Written Explanations of Numerical Reasoning” (Quebec Fuentes, Crawford, Rowe, & Huscroft-D’Angelo), which explores the disciplinary writing of approximately 400 fourth-grade students as related to whole-number and fraction comparison tasks.
