TY - JOUR AU - Meiring, Steven P. PY - 2023/02/20 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Mathematics and Thinking JF - Ohio Journal of School Mathematics JA - ojsm VL - 93 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ohiomathjournal.org/index.php/OJSM/article/view/9244 SP - 1--13 AB - <p><span dir="ltr" style="left: 231.165px; top: 363.799px; font-size: 14.944px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.92682);" role="presentation">Traditional textbook-centered, teacher-led instruction is based heavily on research about how students </span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 162.488px; top: 382.064px; font-size: 14.944px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.909682);" role="presentation">best learn mathematics, at what stages ideas can be introduced, and of what kinds of thinking students are capable. </span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 161.95px; top: 400.329px; font-size: 14.944px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.907048);" role="presentation">Application of student knowledge to tasks not explicitly taught enters a new domain relying on the emotional circuitry </span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 162.488px; top: 418.594px; font-size: 14.944px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.916125);" role="presentation">of the brain, as well as the cortex where reasoning and problem solving predominate. Cognitive science and neural </span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 162.488px; top: 436.859px; font-size: 14.944px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.900432);" role="presentation">science provide fascinating insights into non-content related considerations that govern how much of their intellectual </span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 162.488px; top: 455.124px; font-size: 14.944px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.887194);" role="presentation">resources students will commit to a task and how long they will persist before their knowledge is accessed. Information </span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 162.488px; top: 473.389px; font-size: 14.944px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.9153);" role="presentation">about how the brain works and how students address mathematics is complementary to more familiar mathematics </span><span dir="ltr" style="left: 162.488px; top: 491.654px; font-size: 14.944px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.872625);" role="presentation">education research.</span></p> ER -