International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Dr Colin Foster – Reader in Mathematics Education, Department of Mathematics Education, Schofield Building, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU
Email: [email protected]
Associate Editors
Dr. M. McCartney – School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, UK
Professor G. Oates – School of Education, University of Tasmania, Australia
Communications Editor
Dr. Katherine Seaton – La Trobe University, Australia
Editorial Advisory Board
Professor S. Abramovich – School of Education and Professional Studies, State University of New York, USA
Dr Ayla Ata Baran – Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Faculty of Education, Turkey
Professor B. Bradie – Department of Mathematics, Christopher Newport University, USA
Dr Cornelia Connolly – School of Education, University of Galway, Ireland
Professor T. Dana-Picard – Applied Mathematics, Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel
Professor Ömür Deveci – Department of Mathematics, Kafkas University, Turkey
Dr Peter Dunn – Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
Dr Ulises Xolocotzin Eligio – Department of Educational Mathematics, Cinvestav, IPN, Mexico
Professor J. Engelbrecht – Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Dr Katie Evans – College of Engineering and Science, Louisiana Tech University, USA
Dr Martin Griffiths – Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Essex, UK
Dr Vesife Hatisaru – School of Education, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Dr Suzanne E. Hiller – College of Education, Hood College, USA
Assoc. Professor A. Kajander – Faculty of Education, Lakehead University, USA
Dr Igor’ Kontorovich – Faculty of Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Professor B. Loch – College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Australia
Dr. Elizabeth Lugosi – Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Data Science, Montgomery College, Maryland, USA
Dr. Andrea Maffia – Department of Mathematics, University of Bologna, Italy
Associate Professor M. F. Mammana – Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, University of Catania, Italy
Assistant Professor W. Maciejewski – Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San José State University, USA
Dr. Alan McCarthy – School of Arts & Sciences, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney, Australia Professor Keiichi Nishimura – Mathematics Education, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan
Dr L. Rylands – School of Mathematics, Western Sydney University, Australia
Professor A. G. Shannon – Faculty of Engineering & IT, University of Technology, Australia
Dr Giovanni Vincenzi – Department of Mathematics, University of Salerno, Italy
Professor Extraordinaire M. D. de Villiers – Mathematics Education, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Professor L. Wood – Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University, Australia
Professor R. Zazkis – Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Founding Editors
Avi C. Bajpai OBE and W. T. Martin
Immediate Past-Editor
Martin Harrison
Aims and Scope
Mathematics pervades every area of our modern world, bringing ever more sharply into focus the responsibilities placed on those who to teach it. Prominent among these is the challenge of developing an interdisciplinary approach, so that each professional group benefits from the expertise of others.
The International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology provides a forum in which a wide range of peer-reviewed research in mathematics education can be presented, assimilated and eventually adapted to everyday needs in schools, colleges, universities, industry and commerce. The journal is especially interested in facilitating communication between researchers and practitioners, and contributions are welcome from researchers, lecturers, teachers and users of mathematics at all levels regarding the contents of courses and pedagogical approaches across all areas of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) education. We are always delighted to receive submissions from as diverse and international a range of contributors as possible, including teachers and early-career academics. Increasing use of technology is being made in the teaching, learning, assessment and presentation of mathematics today, and original and interesting contributions in this rapidly developing area are especially welcome. Mathematical models arising from real situations, the use of computers, digital assistants and software, new teaching aids and techniques are also an important feature. Discussion is encouraged on methods of widening applications throughout science and technology and supporting students in problem solving. We particularly welcome contributions addressing pedagogy in Biology, Chemistry, Computer science, Business, Economics and Finance, Data science, Engineering, and Physics, in addition to Mathematics itself.
Please note that the link to education/pedagogy is critical for IJMEST, and we do not publish articles which merely discuss mathematics.
A distinctive feature of the journal is the Classroom Notes section. This section is for shorter, peer-reviewed articles which are not research articles, and are often new ideas for the mathematics teacher to use in teaching.
We would be glad to receive proposals at any time for special issues in relevant areas.
Readership
Mathematicians and mathematics educators in schools, colleges, and universities.
Peer Review Policy
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor. If found suitable for further consideration, papers are subject to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double blind and submissions can be made online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tmes.
Submitting to International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology
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International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology
Volume 55 Number 6 May 2024
CONTENTS
Articles
1309 Examining pre-service mathematics teachers’ argumentation-supported lesson plans and their noticing during planning
Berna Tataroğlu Taşdan, Ayşe Tekin Dede and Melike Yiğit Koyunkaya
1330 Questionnaire design and sampling procedures for business and economics students: a research-oriented, hands-on course
Nicolas Frölich and Karl Sebastian Schellhammer
1349 Examining the mathematical autobiographies of undergraduate health science students
Molly J. Dingel and Abraham Ayebo
1366 Investigating volume estimation performance and strategies of 6th-Grade children and adults
Despina Desli and Panagiotis Dimitropoulos
1391 Middle-school mathematics teachers’ provision of non-examples and explanations in rational number instruction
Ramazan Avcu
1420 Teaching and learning angles in elementary school: physical versus paper-and-pencil sequences
Valérie Munier and Claude Devichi
1444 Students’ intuitively-based (mis)conceptions in probability and teachers’ awareness of them: the case of heuristics
Ayhan Kursat Erbas and Mehmet Fatih Ocal
1481 Non-equivalent notions of the eccentricity of the conics: an exploratory study with high school teachers
Antonio Rivera-Figueroa and Ernesto Bravo-Díaz
Classroom Notes
1503 Visualizing the sum of squares induction proof
Tom Edgar
1506 QR decomposition for the least squares method: theory and practice
Alexey L. Voskov
1524 The negative exponential transformation: a linear algebraic approach to the Laplace transform
Wha-Suck Lee