Machine Design Research

Today, K-12 practitioners are challenged to become educational innovators. Yet, little is available to the practitioner to guide their reflection about the design, development, and implementation of these innovations in their own practice. This brief approaches such problems of practice from the perspectives of design research.

by Laurene Vaughan (Editor)

In this well-illustrated book the authors, Sinan Kanbir, Ken Clements, and NeridaEllerton, tackle a persistent, and universal, problem in school mathematics—why doso many middle-school and secondary-school students find it difficult to learn algebrawell? What makes the book important are the unique features which comprise thedesign-research approach that the authors adopted in seeking a solution to the problem.