Table of Contents:
  • Statistics in journalism practice and higher education / Jairo A. Lugo-Ocando
  • Understanding quality of statistics in news stories: a theoretical approach from the audience's perspective / Alessandro Martinisi
  • The uses of science statistics in the news media and on daily life / Renata Faria Brandao.
  • Training educational researchers in science and mathematics: a case study through a binational workshop Mexico-UK / Maria-Soledad Ramirez-Montoya
  • Using modeling and simulation to learn mathematics / Ruth Rodriguez Gallegos
  • Teachers and mathematical modeling: what are the challenges? / Samantha Analuz Quiroz Rivera, Ruth Rodriguez Gallegos
  • Data literacy and citizenship: understanding 'big data' to boost teaching and learning in science and mathematics / Eddy L. Borges-Rey
  • Financial literacy: gaps found between Mexican public and private, middle, and high-school students / Adriana Berenice Valencia Alvarez, Jaime Ricardo Valenzuela Gonzalez
  • A project-based learning approach: developing mathematical competences in engineering students / Ismael Osuna Galan, Alejandro Miguel Rosas-Mendoza
  • Didactic sequences teaching mathematics for engineers with focus on differential equations / Luis Ramon Siero Gonzalez, Avenilde Romo Vazquez
  • Making links between solutions to an unstructured problem: the role of pre-written, designed student responses / Sheila Evans
  • Assessing authentic intellectual work in mathematics tasks / Lesly Yahaira Rodriguez Martinez, Maria Guadalupe Perez Martinez, Adriana Mercado Salas
  • The importance of the disciplinary perspective in educational research / Ross Kerr Galloway, Paul Hernandez-Martinez
  • Learning biology with situated learning in Mexican Zapoteca tele-secondary schools / Paulina Guerrero-Gutierrez
  • Transformations of the concept of linear function in technological high schools / Rebeca Flores Garcia
  • Measurement instruments to motivate scientific learning by conceptual change / Ana Marcela Monjardín Gopar, Gerónimo Mendoza Meraz
  • Test design to assess the qualities of science students' prior knowledge / Luis Hernán Arellano Ulloa, Gerónimo Mendoza Meraz, Ana Cecilia Villarreal Ballesteros
  • Argumentation schema to analyze high school students' scientific reasoning / Ricardo Lorenzo De la Garza, Genaro Zavala, Alma Adrianna Gómez Galindo
  • Accurate items for inaccurate conceptions in undergraduate physics students / Eder Hernandez, Genaro Zavala
  • A look into students' interpretation of electric field lines / Esmeralda Campos, Genaro Zavala
  • Research-based strategies in an electric circuits lab: tutorials and realtime physics approaches / Monica Quezada-Espinoza, Genaro Zavala
  • Integration of digital technologies: collaborative practices in teaching mathematics / Andrés Vázquez Faustino
  • The effectiveness of computer-aided assessment for the purposes of a mathematical sciences lecturer / Stephen James Broughton, Paul Hernandez-Martinez, Carol L. Robinson
  • Construction of the definite integral concept using open source software / Lizzeth Aurora Navarro-Ibarra, Omar Cuevas-Salazar, Alan Daniel Robles-Aguilar
  • Context as action in the teaching of statistical concepts: an activity theory perspective / Helen Harth