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Submissions from 2023

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Meter or Yard: Preservice Bilingual Teachers’ Strategies for Introducing Measurement Concepts to Young Students by Modifying a Classic Story, Song An, Tillman Daniel, So Jung Kim, and Josefina Tinajero

Submissions from 2022

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The Constructivist Flipped Classroom, William Robertson

Submissions from 2020

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To Teach or Not To Teach Online, William Robertson

Submissions from 2019

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The Masters of Physics: Critical Thinking Through Skateboarding, William Robertson

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The Oasis Skateboard Factory: Return to the One-Room Schoolhouse, William Robertson

Submissions from 2018

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The Hidden Musicality of Math Class: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Mathematics Education, Song An

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Asset-Based Teaching and Learning with Diverse Learners in Postsecondary Settings, Erika L. Mein

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Edutainment: Weaving Your Passion into the Process of STEM Education, William Robertson

Submissions from 2017

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It Doesn’t Feel Like a Job to Learn: Hispanic preservice teachers’ perceptions of dance-themed mathematics education, William Robertson

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The Physics of Skateboarding: Making Science Relevant, Engaging and Motivational, William Robertson

Submissions from 2016

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Hispanic Preservice Teachers’ Peer Evaluations of Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development A Self-Referenced Comparison Between Monolingual Generalists and Bilingual Generalists, Song An, Tillman Daniel, Meilan Zhang, William Robertson, and Josefina Tinajero

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Learning to Teach Music-themed Mathematics: An Examination of Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs about Developing and Implementing Interdisciplinary Mathematics Pedagogy, Song An, Meilan Zhang, Tillman Daniel, Larry Lesser, Annette Siemssen, and Josefina Tinajero

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Astronauts in Outer Space Teaching Students Science: Comparing Chinese and American Implementations of Space-to-Earth Virtual Classrooms, Song An, Meilan Zhang, Tillman Daniel, William Robertson, and Carlos Paez

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Mathematics Uncovered Through Action Science, William Robertson

Submissions from 2015

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Integrating Mathematics and Music in Education: After 60 Years, Can We Reunite the Separated Twins?, Song An

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Music Activities as a Meaningful Context for Teaching Elementary Students Mathematics: A Quasi-Experiment Time Series Design with Random Assigned Control Group, Song An and Daniel Tillman

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Music-Themed Mathematics Education as a Strategy for Improving Elementary Preservice Teachers' Mathematics Pedagogy and Teaching Self-Efficacy, Song An and Daniel Tillman

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Music Activities as an Impetus for Hispanic Elementary Students' Mathematical Disposition, Song An, Meilan Zhang, Maria Flores, Judith Chapman, Daniel Tillman, and Lisa Serna

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Facilitating Conceptual Change through Modeling in the Middle School Science Classroom, David J. Carrejo and Judy Reinhartz

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Inquiry Science in Bilingual Classrooms, Elaine M. Hampton and Isela Rosa Rodriguez

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The Skatepark Mathematics Extravaganza, William Robertson

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Global Climate Change and the Need for Relevant Curriculum, William H. Robertson

Submissions from 2014

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Elementary Teachers’ Design of Arts Based Teaching: Investigating the Possibility of Developing Mathematics-Music Integrated Curriculum, Song A. An and Daniel A. Tillman

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Preservice Teachers’ Perception About Teaching Mathematics Through Music, Song An, Tillman Daniel, Andrea Shaheen, and Rachel Boren

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Elementary Teachers' Design of Arts Based Teaching: Investigating the Possibility of Developing Mathematics-Music Integrated Curriculum, Song An and Daniel Tillman

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Fostering Elementary Students’ Mathematics Disposition through Music-Mathematics Integrated Lessons, Song An, Daniel Tillman, and Rachel Boren

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Free and Open Source Tools (FOSTs): An Empirical Investigation of Pre-Service Teacher’s Competency, Attitude, and Pedagogical Intention., Joyce G. Asing-Cashman, Binod Gurung, Yam Limbu, and David Rutledge

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How do Pre-service Teachers Explain Their Own Technology Growth in a Technology Integration Course, Joyce G. Asing-Cashman and David Rutledge

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Teachers Fostering the Co-Development of Science Literacy and Language Literacy with English Language Learners, David J. Carrejo and Judy Reinhartz

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Meaning Making and Translanguaging in a Two-Way Dual-Language Program on the U.S.-Mexico Border, Alberto Esquinca, Blanca Araujo, and Maria T. De La Piedra

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Bilingualism as a Meaning-Making Resource for Learning Engineering, Alberto Esquinca, Erika L. Mein, Elsa Y. Villa, and Angelica Monarrez

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From Authoritative Discourse to Internally Persuasive Discourse: Discursive Evolution in Teaching and Learning the Language of Science, Pei-Ling Hsu and Wolff-Michael Roth

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How to Incentivize Students to Graduate Faster, Olga M. Kosheleva

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One More Mathematical Argument in Favor of Interdisciplinary Research and Diversity, Olga M. Kosheleva and Leonardo Octavio Lerma

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If Many Physicists Are Right and No Physical Theory Is Perfect, Then by Using Physical Observations, We Can Feasibly Solve Almost All Instances of Each NP-Complete Problem, Olga Kosheleva, Michael Zakharevich, and Vladik Kreinovich

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Sage and Thyme: Cases of Teacher Affective Disposition Through the Lens of Reflective Transphenomenality, Ruby L. Lynch-Arroyo and Mourat A. Tchoshanov

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Redefining Pedagogy: Dialogues on Transformative Immersion, Praxis, and Reflection, William H. Robertson and Judith Munter

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Global Activism and Social Transformation vis-à-vis Dominant Forms of Economic Organization: Critical Education within Afro-Brazilian and Transnational Pedagogical Praxis., Cesar A. Rossatto Ph.D.

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Space, Relations, and the Learning of Science, Wolff-Michael Roth and Pei-Ling Hsu

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Mexican (Im)migrant Students and Education: Constructions of and Resistance to ‘Illegality, Haley Seif, Char Ullman, and Guillermina Nunez-Mrchi

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Building Multidisciplinary Connections: Intersections of Content, Creativity, and Digital Fabrication Technologies., Shaunna Smith, Daniel A. Tillman, Punya Mishra, David Slykhuis, Curby Alexander, Danah Henriksen, Rhonda Church, and Adam Goodman

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Relationship Between Cognitive Types of Teacher Content Knowledge and Teaching Experience: Quantitative Study of Mexican Borderland Middle School Teachers, Mourat A. Tchoshanov and Maria D. Cruz

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Building Model NASA Satellites: Elementary Students Studying Science Using a NASA-themed Transmedia Book Featuring Digital Fabrication Activities, Daniel A. Tillman, Song A. An, Rachel Boren, and David Slykhuis

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Exploring Wind Power: Improving Mathematical Thinking through Digital Fabrication, Daniel A. Tillman, Song A. An, Jonathan Cohen, William Kjellstrom, and Rachel Boren

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Innovative Digital Design Technologies that Support Student Creativity., Daniel A. Tillman, Shaunna Smith, Punya Mishra, and Danah Henriksen

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Forbidden language: English Learners and Restrictive Language Policies, Char Ullman

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Creating an Equitable Classroom Environment: A Case Study of a Preservice Elementary Teacher Learning What It Means to "Do Inquiry", Elsa Y. Villa

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Preservice Middle School Science Teacher’s Attitudes and Beliefs toward Biologically Diverse Animals, Ronald R. Wagler and Amy E. Wagler

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Methods for the Ethnography of Communication: Language in Use in Schools and Communities, Judith Kaplan Weinger and Char Ullman

Submissions from 2013

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Elementary teachers integrate music activities into regular mathematics lessons: Effects on students’ mathematical abilities, Song An, Mary Capraro, and Daniel Tillman

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Why Trapezoidal and Triangular Membership Functions Work So Well: Towards a Theoretical Explanation, Aditi Barua, Lalitha Snigdha Mudunuri, and Olga Kosheleva

Anay’s Will to Learn: A Woman’s Education in the Shadow of the Maquiladora., Anay Palomeque de Carrillo and Elaine M. Hampton

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"Consejo" as a Literacy Event: A Case Study of a Border Mexican Woman, Maria T. De La Piedra

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Transfronteriza Pre-Service Teachers Managing, Resisting and Coping with the Demands of Mathematical Discourse, Alberto Esquinca

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Conservation of Energy Implies Conservation of Momentum: How We Can Explain Conservation of Momentum to Before-Calculus Students, Eric Freudenthal, Eric Hagedorn, and Olga Kosheleva

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Minimization of Average Sensitivity as a Method of Selecting Fuzzy Functions and Operations: Successes and Limitations, Riya George, Suresh Subramanian, Alejandro Vega, and Olga Kosheleva

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Addressivity in Cogenerative Dialogues, Pei-Ling Hsu

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The Role of Discursive Resources in Science Talk, Pei-Ling Hsu

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Communicative event chains in an ethnography of Paraguayan language policy., Katherine Mortimer

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Edutainment: Using Media and Video Instruction as Methods of Disseminating Content in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Instruction, William Robertson

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Journey to the end of the earth: Analyzing the outcomes of a field-based research program in Antarctica, William Robertson and Claudia Garcia

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Scientific Skateboarding and Mathematical Music: Edutainment that Actively Engages Middle School Students, William Robertson and Larry Lesser

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The Transnationalization of Racism: Critical Multiculturalism as a Venue to Implement Anti-Racist Education, Cesar A. Rossatto

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`Fuzzy' Multiple-Choice Quizzes and How to Grade Them, Shahnaz Shahbazova and Olga M. Kosheleva

Submissions from 2012

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Socializing Pre-Service Teachers into Mathematical Discourse: The Interplay Between Biliteracy and Multimodality, Alberto Esquinca

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Mayan and Babylonian Arithmetics Can Be Explained by the Need to Minimize Computations, Olga M. Kosheleva

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Kinematic Spaces and de Vries Algebras: Towards Possible Physical Meaning of de Vries Algebras, Olga Kosheleva and Francisco Zapata

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How to Define Mean, Variance, etc., for Heavy-Tailed Distributions: A Fractal-Motivated Approach, Vladik Kreinovich and Olga Kosheleva

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Towards Unique Physically Meaningful Definitions of Random and Typical Objects, Luc Longpre and Olga Kosheleva

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The Mathematics of Skateboarding: A Relevant Application of the 5Es of Constructivism, William Robertson

Submissions from 2011

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Music-Math Integrated Activities for Elementary and Middle School Students, Song An and Mary Capraro

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Preservice teachers' beliefs and attitude about teaching and learning mathematics through music: An intervention study SA An, T Ma, MM Capraro, Song An and Tingting Ma

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How Accurately Should We Write on the Board? When Marking Comments on Student Papers?, Martine Ceberio and Olga Kosheleva

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A Case Study of Pre-Service Teachers Writing Mathematics for Teaching in a Second Language, Alberto Esquinca and Olga Kosheleva

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Integrating mathematical modeling for undergraduate pre-service science education learning and instruction in the middle school classroom, William Robertson and David Carrejo

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Computations under Time Constraints: Algorithms Developed for Fuzzy Computations Can Help, Karen Villaverde, Olga Kosheleva, and Martine Ceberio

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How to Tell When a Product of Two Partially Ordered Spaces Has a Certain Property?, Francisco Zapata, Karen Villaverde, and Olga M. Kosheleva

Submissions from 2010

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Dr. Skateboard’s action science: Increasing science knowledge and skills for middle school teachers, William Robertson

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Project STIMMULIS: Science Teachers Integrating Mathematical Modeling for Undergraduate Learning and Instruction in Schools, William Robertson and David Carrego

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Why Ellipsoid Constraints, Ellipsoid Clusters, and Riemannian Space-Time: Dvoretzky's Theorem Revisited, Karen Villaverde, Olga Kosheleva, and Martine Ceberio

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Towards More Detailed Value-Added Teacher Assessments, Karen Villaverde and Olga M. Kosheleva

Submissions from 2009

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Dr. Skateboard’s action science: Teaching physics in context, William Robertson

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Dr. Skateboard’s action science: Transforming science education for middle school students, William Robertson

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Skateboard: Ciencia de acción de Doctor Skateboard: Educacion transformativa en física, William Robertson

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Transforming Middle School Science Education Through Action Science, William Robertson

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Bridging the gap between real world polar science and the classroom, William Robertson, Vanessa Lougheed, Craig Tweedie, Aaron Velasco, and Claudia Garcia

Submissions from 2008

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Sick Children, Alternative Assessments, and What Happens at Home During Testing Time: Mexican­American Parents’ Voices on High­Stakes Schooling, Elaine M. Hampton and Reynaldo Reyes

Submissions from 2007

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El uso de preguntas y descubrimiento en el contexto de química, William Robertson

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Field-based science education with a community service learning focus, William Robertson

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Increasing Pre-service Teacher Science Test Success with a Tutorial CD, William Robertson, Brian Giza, and Stephanie Kuehne

Submissions from 2006

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Implementing the Texas Master Science Teacher Program, Brian H. Giza, Elaine M. Hampton, and William Robertson

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Examining the Impact of Science Fairs in a Mexican-American Community, Elaine M. Hampton and Miguel Licona

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A practical approach to building web sites in the classroom, William Robertson

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Utilizing Web Based Technologies In Problem-Based Learning, William Robertson

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Science education on the U.S./Mexico border: Field-based studies for future teachers in bilingual/binational schools, William Robertson, Judith Munter, and Claudia Garcia

Submissions from 2005

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Standardized or sterilized? Divergent Perspectives on the Effects of High-Stakes Testing in West Texas, Elaine M. Hampton

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Science Concept Learning in a Dual Language Setting, Elaine M. Hampton and Rosaisela Rodriguez

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Phases of Web Based Curriculum Development, William Robertson

Submissions from 2004

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Globalization Legacy: A View of U.S. Factory Involvement in Mexican Education, Elaine M. Hampton