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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

cognitive construction, learning statistics, mathematics education

College

Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Department

Mathematics

Abstract

Paul Fields in the statistics department was my first mentor. Together we tried to develop a new pedagogy for teaching statistics. This interested me because I may teach advanced placement statistics after I graduate from the Mathematics Education program. A position then came available to me as a research assistant for Dr. Hope Gerson. It was a better opportunity because it is in my field of study and it allowed me work with statistics and apply calculus. Together with Dr. Walter, Dr. Gerson taught an Honors Calculus 1 class for two semesters and an Honors Calculus 2 class for one semester. These classes used open-ended tasks in a collaborative environment. During these semesters and the summers between I took field notes in the class, videotaped the class and then transcribed these videos. While performing these tasks, I watched for things in which I was interested and which I could study further. The way in which students learn and understand mathematics concepts and statistical concepts still interested me and so, while transcribing these videos, I watched for these things. Because this class was a calculus class and not statistics, I can only try to relate the things I learn about the mathematics concepts to statistics.

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