Malara, N.A. (2006). Behaviours of 6th-grade students in front of a problematic situation aimed at approaching the concepts of function and inverse function Download pdf We face the question of an early approach to the functions, seen in the wider frame of the binary relationships, promoting the use of different registers of representation and their »
Cusi, A., Malara, N.A. (2007). Proof problems in elementary number theory: analysis of trainee teachers productions Download pdf Our study involves a group of pre-service middle-school teachers attending educational and training courses at our university. The aim is to classify their behaviour in solving a problem that requires the proof of a statement in elementary »
Cusi, A., Malara N.A. (2008). Approaching early algebra: Teachers’ educational processes and classroom experiences Download pdf After a short survey of the main steps which lead to the birth of “Early Algebra” as a specific field of studies, we sketch the main features of our theoretical frame and our work to promote algebraic thinking in »
Malara, N.A. (2008). Metodi e strumenti per promuovere negli insegnanti un approccio socio-costruttivo all’insegnamento della matematica, Università e Scuola, anno XII, n. 2, 70-84 scarica pdf In questo lavoro, dopo una introduzione circa il ruolo dell’insegnante nell’insegnamento socio-costruttivo e una sintesi delle indicazioni fornite dalla ricerca al riguardo, si espone la metodologia di lavoro condotta »
Malara, N.A. (2008). Crossed Critical Reflections as a Way of Promoting Teachers’ Awareness and Improving Their Professional Development. download pdf The report concerns an invited contribution at the WG2 ‘The professional formation of teachers’ at the International Symposium held in Rome on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of ICMI. In the report we sketch »
Malara, N.A. (2008). Methods and tools to promote a socio-constructive approach to mathematics teaching in teachers download pdf This work, after a short introduction on the role of the teacher in socio-constructive teaching and a synthesis of the main directions suggested by research in this field, deals with the methodology used to work with and »
Malara N.A, Zan, R. (2008). The Complex Interplay between Theory and Practice: Reflections and Examples download pdf This chapter addresses the complex issue of the relationship between theory, considered as the corpus of knowledge constituting mathematics education, and practice, seen as the act of teaching. Clearly this analysis is influenced by our model of teaching, »
Santos, L., Berg, C.V., Malara, N.A., Potari D., Tuner, F., 2011, From a study of teaching practices to issues in teacher education download pdf The paper offers a landscape of the studies presented within the WG 17 at CERME 7. They have been classified in these strands: 1. Mathematical content knowledge for teaching; 2. Professional »
Cusi, A., Malara, N.a. (2009), The teacher’s role in developing proof activities by means of algebraic language. Dowload pdf In this paper, part of a wider study aimed at a conscious use of the algebraic language in proof activities in elementary number theory (ENT), we analyse the role of the teacher in discussion activities aimed at »
Cusi, A., Malara, N.A. (2009). Future teachers facing proof problems: games of interpretation, anticipating thought and coordination between verbal and algebraic register download pdf This contribution is part of a wider work, involving pre- and in-service teachers, aimed at making teachers aware of the importance of developing in students an effective symbol sense. In this perspective, »
