DNR-Based Instruction: A Model for Professional Development of Math Teachers, with a Special Attention to Justification and Proof and Algebra Teachers from Low Performing Schools

University Of California-San Diego, La Jolla CA

Investigators

Abstract

Drawing on prior work and a pilot study of DNR based instruction. The PI observed that such instruction has brought about positive change in teachers' knowledge of algebra, in their use of justification and proof, in their understanding of how students learn, and in their practices of teaching mathematics. Consequently, the general goal of this proposed research is will, and if so how will, a DNR-based instruction be effective in developing the knowledge base of algebra teachers, particularly with respect to mathematical, cognitive, and instructional aspects of proof schemes? Teachers will be randomly assigned to treatment and in the last year of the study explicit links to student achievement will be estimated.