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The Creative Enterprise of Mathematics Teaching Research

Elements of Methodology and Practice – From Teachers to Teachers

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Editors:
  1. Bronislaw Czarnocha

    1. Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College, City University of New York, USA

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  2. William Baker

    1. Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College, City University of New York, USA

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  3. Olen Dias

    1. Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College, City University of New York, USA

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  4. Vrunda Prabhu

    1. Bronx Community College, City University of New York, USA

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Table of contents (38 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. The Main Themes of the Book

    • Bronislaw Czarnocha, William Baker, Olen Dias, Vrunda Prabhu
    Pages 1-2

  3. Teaching-Research New York City Model (TR/NY City)

    • Bronislaw Czarnocha
    Pages 3-21

  4. Creativity Research and Koestler

    • Bronislaw Czarnocha, Vrunda Prabhu, Olen Dias, William Baker
    Pages 23-41

  5. Underserved Students and Creativity

    • William Baker
    Pages 43-55

  6. Underserved Students and Creativity

    • Bronislaw Czarnocha, William Baker, Olen Dias, Vrunda Prabhu
    Pages 57-62

  7. The Didactic Contract, A Handshake and a Compromise

    • Vrunda Prabhu, Bronislaw Czarnocha, Howard Pflanzer
    Pages 63-73

  8. Focus on Creativity – Literacy – Numeracy

    • Vrunda Prabhu, James Watson
    Pages 75-93

  9. The Poznan Theatre Problem

    • Vrunda Prabhu, Peter Barbatis, Howard Pflanzer
    Pages 95-106

  10. The Creative Learning Environment

    • Vrunda Prabhu
    Pages 107-126

  11. The Reflections of the Teacher-Researcher Upon the Creativity Principle

    • Vrunda Prabhu
    Pages 127-131

  12. Reflection and Case Study of Creative Learning Environment

    • Olen Dias
    Pages 133-144

  13. Tools of Teaching-Research

    • Bronislaw Czarnocha, William Baker, Olen Dias, Vrunda Prabhu
    Pages 145-147

  14. How to Arrive at a Teaching-Research Question?

    • Vrunda Prabhu, William Baker, Bronislaw Czarnocha
    Pages 149-161

  15. How to Approach a Teaching Experiment?

    • Bronislaw Czarnocha
    Pages 163-170

  16. Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis

    • William Baker
    Pages 171-178

  17. Teaching Research Interviews

    • Eric Fuchs, Bronislaw Czarnocha
    Pages 179-197

  18. Use of Concept Maps in Classroom Research

    • Vrunda Prabhu, Haiyue Jin, Roberto Catanuto
    Pages 199-202

  19. Pictorial Scaffolding in the Schema Construction of Concepts

    • Vrunda Prabhu
    Pages 203-212

  20. Concept Maps

    • Haiyue Jin
    Pages 213-228
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About this book

The Creative Enterprise of Mathematics Teaching Research presents the results and methodology of work of the teaching-research community of practice of the Bronx (TR Team of the Bronx). It has a twofold aim of impacting both teachers of Mathematics and researchers in Mathematics Education. This volume can be used by teachers of mathematics who want to use research to reflect upon and to improve their teaching craft, as well as by researchers who are interested in uncovering riches of classroom learning/teaching for research investigations. This book represents the results of a collaboration of instructors discussing their own instruction research, analyzed through a conceptual framework obtained via the synthesis of creativity research and educational learning theories, based upon the work of Piaget and Vygotsky. The editors see an urgent need for creative synthesis of research and teaching, an example of which is presented in the book.


Two central themes of the book are the methodology of TR/NYCity model and creativity, more  precisely, creativity  of  the  Aha  moment formulated by Arthur Koestler (1964) in a very profound but little known theory of bisociation exposed in his work “The Act of Creation”. Incorporation of the theory of bisociation into classroom teaching of mathematics provides the key to enable students who may struggle with mathematics to engage their own creativity, become involved in their learning process and thus reach their full potential of excellence. 


Creativity in teaching remedial mathematics is teaching gifted students how to access their own giftedness.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College, City University of New York, USA

    Bronislaw Czarnocha, William Baker, Olen Dias

  • Bronx Community College, City University of New York, USA

    Vrunda Prabhu

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Creative Enterprise of Mathematics Teaching Research

  • Book Subtitle: Elements of Methodology and Practice – From Teachers to Teachers

  • Editors: Bronislaw Czarnocha, William Baker, Olen Dias, Vrunda Prabhu

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-549-4

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-549-4Published: 28 July 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 536

  • Topics: Education, general

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