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Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 2 Understandings .................................................................................................................. 6 Problems, Exercises and Problem Based Learning ......................................................... 6 Support and Criticism of a Problem-based Learning Approach ..................................... 9 Relational Equity ........................................................................................................... 11 Setting ............................................................................................................................... 13 Location - High Tech Middle School, Chula Vista ....................................................... 13 Demographics................................................................................................................ 14 Principles of Design, Three Key Integrations ............................................................... 16 My Classroom ............................................................................................................... 22 Methods ............................................................................................................................ 24 Overview ....................................................................................................................... 24 Surveys .......................................................................................................................... 25 Interviews ...................................................................................................................... 25 Work samples ................................................................................................................ 25 Observations .................................................................................................................. 26 References ........................................................................................................................ 27

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Introduction
By removing the creative process and leaving only the results of that process, you virtually guarantee that no one will have any real engagement with the subject. (Lockhart, 2009) I am an 8th grade mathematics teacher. I work at a school that allows me with to design my math program in a way that meets my strengths as a teacher and the needs of my students. I have had a certain amount of success teaching the standard procedures and concepts prescribed by the state for students studying mathematics in 8th grade. Despite this success, I believe the approach I have taken has misled many students about what mathematics is and what mathematicians do. If you asked my students what it took to be good at math they might say something like this: Practice is the most important thing, for every new topic you want to know every type of problem there is and then you solve those kinds of problems as many times as you need to until you can do it right about 80% of the time. In short, in my class the process of mathematics was: somebody shows you how to it and you practice how to it that until you can do it on your own.

Maybe this approach is not a terribly offensive and on its surface has some appeal. Its appeal to me as a teacher is pretty clear. I care about my kids; I want them to feel smart and successful. I start out in the beginning of the year with all these exercises that I need to show kids how to solve. I know they will be tested on them by the state, they will be judged on them by their peers, parents and future teachers. So I show them how to do it, make them practice the steps until they are proficient and repeat. There is a lot to cover and little time to waste.

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But implicit to this approach is the assumption that students should care about learning steps and procedures to these things partially (perhaps sometimes wholly) because if they do not others will see them as dumb or weak or lazy or not good at math. Also implicit is the idea that doing something just because it is hard or requires discipline is reason enough to do it.

Anecdotally, from my own experiences as a student I realize this approach does not always work. I was not a good student in my middle and early high school years. I remember little of mathematics classes but I do have a vivid memory of lifting my head up from my desk one day to ask a girl next to me why she was doing solving a problem the way she was and her responding because that was what she was told to do. I asked why again and she responded because that is how you do it. I put my head down again and that was that. There came a point in my young life that the negative perceptions of others about my work ethic, academic ability and intelligence became something that I saw as static. As a kid with why on my mind all the time, just because was an exhausting answer.

But you should have seen me in front of a chess set. My elementary school principle and my father introduced me to the game. My father would give me as many pieces as necessary to make the game competitive. My principle would play with me at recess, often when I had to stay inside because I hadnt completed some assignment or another. I could stare and strategize for hours. I could ask why and what if. I could try something and it would work or it would not and I would try something else. There were tactics that had to be understood and strategies that had to be developed. There was mystery, consequence, collaboration and critical thought. Every problem was new, every problem multi faceted. Early on, I did not solve these problems correctly in the

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sense that I did not win the games. But by the end of fifth grade I could beat my principle and by the eighth grade I was winning citywide school championships. The wins were great but they would not have come with out the problems, the need to understand why, and the opportunity to create and discover.

The practice of procedures has a role in mathematics education, especially at the elementary and secondary level, but what was missing from my class room was the point of practicing the procedures, the opportunities for discovery, for solving new and novel problems, the public debate of ideas, the proof and presentation thought. The focus on procedural fluency in my classroom came at the expense of learning effective problem solving strategies and habits of mathematicians. It came at expense of seeing math exercises as the sum total of mathematics. We were drilling exercises but rarely solving problems.

My first glimpse at another approach came when someone told me about Exeter problems that you could get freely on the Internet. I was told that the problems were sometimes used as challenge problems for kids who needed extra challenge but it wasnt until I started going through the problem sets myself and creating a solution set that I really became intrigued by them. They were not what they seemed to be, or what many people had described them to be.

The problems came in sets, and the sets were ordered. The problems fell into different categories and had different goals. Sometimes the problems introduced new terminology. Sometimes the problems were superficially simple to solve but revealed new ideas. Some made connections

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between arithmetic thinking and algebraic thinking. Some were abstract, some were concrete, and some made connections between the two. None of the problems forecasted the skills needed to solve them, but problem sets clearly focused on particular concepts and skills. The problems built on themselves, adding little bits of complexity as they went along.

The problem sets covered multiple ideas in a single set, so students might be doing problems about the implications of the distributive property and also deriving the rules for exponents at the same time. The problem sets came without instructional texts explaining how to do them.

I was fascinated and began to research. I learned that everything but the initial problems sets came from conversations about, and presentations of, the problems. Content was co-constructed from the discussions and presentations of student work. I learned that the Exeter problems are part of a larger learning approach called problem-based learning, an approach that centered on constructing knowledge through solving, presenting and talking about problems. Problem-based learning (PBL) is the approach to mathematics I wish to look at during my action research. In my action research I will explore the following question: What effect does an approach to teaching mathematics that explicitly emphasizes problems, equitable collaborations, presentations of thought, and construction of knowledge; have on students ability to think critically, the development of their problem solving skills and strategies, and on their perceptions of themselves as mathematicians?

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Understandings
Problems, Exercises and Problem Based Learning
Because I will be researching an approach based on problems it is worthwhile to define what I mean by problems and how a problem differs from an exercise. An exercise is designed primarily to practice a technique that has already been introduced. It is parameterized so that by changing the value of the parameters the technique can be practiced multiple times. The goal of exercises is to develop fluency with techniques, and also to provide example of standard ways in which the techniques are commonly used.

Paul Lockhart describes a good problem as something you dont know how to solve. (Lockhart 2009). That is a good place to start. A good problem is not just something you dont have the answer for it is something your not quite sure how to solve. It requires strategies as well as techniques. Where as exercises drill technique, the goal of a problem is often to discover technique while practicing strategy.

Problem Based Learning was Developed 40 years ago for the health sciences curriculum to address the intensive learning requirements of medical education. Medical faculty at McMaster University in Canada introduced the process with the hopes that it would be a more effective and humane approach to meeting the substantial requirements of medical education. The approach fit their philosophy for structuring an instructional culture that promoted student centered learning, multidisciplinary education and lifelong learning in professional practice (Boud and Feletti 1997,

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as cited by Savery, 2006, p. 9). There are many different definitions of problem-based learning but for the purposes of my research I will focus on two.

Howard S. Barrows, an innovator and practitioner of PBL suggests that four components make up problem-based learning: Ill-structured problems are presented as unresolved so that students will generate not only multiple thoughts about the cause of the problem, but multiple thoughts on how to solve it. A student-centered approach in which students determine what they need to learn. It is up to the learners to derive the key issues of the problems they face, define their knowledge gaps, and pursue and acquire the missing knowledge. Teachers act as facilitators and tutors, asking students the kinds of meta-cognitive questions they want students to ask themselves. In subsequent sessions, guidance is faded. Authenticity forms the basis of problem selection, embodied by alignment to professional or real world practice. (Barrows 2002, as cited by Johannes and Barneveld, 2009, p.46) Although problem-based has its roots in health sciences at the university level, the approach has been adopted at the secondary and elementary level as well and for disciplines besides the health sciences. The second operational definition I will use comes from Dr. Carmel Schettino. Dr. Schettino currently works in the mathematics department of Deerfield Academy and before that was the chair of the mathematics department at Emma WIllard School and was also a mathematics teacher at Exeter Academy. Dr. Schettino defines problem-based learning as: An instructional approach of curriculum and pedagogy where student learning and content material is constructed (and co-constructed) through the use, facilitation, and experience of contextual problems in a decompartmentalized, threaded topic format in a

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discussion-based classroom setting where student voice, experience, and prior knowledge are valued. (Schettino 2011)

It is Schettinos focus on student voice, experience and prior knowledge housed in a non- hierarchical environment embracing a relational pedagogy that speak most strongly to using this approach to promote relational equity. This is not surprising since Schettino focuses much of her research on issues of equity in mathematics education. A good example of what a problem-based classroom can look like is the mathematics classrooms at Exeter Academy. Implementations of the classroom will vary but in all problem-based classrooms, problem solving is central to the process of learning mathematics. Exeter faculties define problem solving as investigating, conjecturing, predicting, analyzing, and verifying, followed by a well-reasoned presentation of results. This problem solving is done in collaborative, student-centered classrooms (Phillips Exeter Academy Website). The role of the teacher in a problem-based classroom is different than role of a teacher in a classroom that focuses primarily on direct instruction. Barrow (Barrows 2002, as cited by Johannes and Barneveld, 2009) refers to the teacher as a facilitator and tutor, asking questions which they hope students will ask themselves. Schettino (2011) highlights the non-hierarchical nature of the environment, which has implications for the teacher as well as the students. The teacher is a facilitator and a coach, encouraging and inspiring, providing direction and pushing thinking. The facilitator scaffolds as necessary, sensing the understanding of the class, probing for understanding, providing opportunities for student Bryan Harms - Action Research Proposal 8

interaction. The facilitator actively fades, relinquishing authority, stepping back as student internalize the process of presentation and discussion.

Support and Criticism of a Problem-based Learning Approach

There have been many studies that look at the effectiveness of problem-based learning. In 2009, Johannes Strobel and Angela Barneveld reviewed the majority of data from studies published in the past 15 years relating to the effectiveness of problem-based learning. Their study used a qualitative meta data synthesis of all the data to contrast the assumptions and findings of the meta analytical research done on the effectiveness of PBL. Their findings indicated that PBL was superior to traditional methods in the areas of long-term retention, skill development and student and faculty satisfaction. (Strobel and Barneveld, 2009, p.53) Additionally, problem-based learning is an effective approach in schools looking to develop the 21st century skills of collaboration, communication and technology literacy. Problem-based learning also incorporates many of the Common Core State Standards such as problem solving and developing quantitative reasoning skills(Schettino 2011).

The most recent criticism of problem-based learning comes in a study entitled Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching. (Kirschner, Sweller, & Clark 2006).

In one of their criticisms, Kirschner, Sweller, & Clark suggest that the cognitive loads associated with the unguided exploration of new content, especially in novice learners, might be detrimental to learning: Bryan Harms - Action Research Proposal 9

Sweller and others (Mayer, 2001; Paas, Renkl, & Sweller, 2003, 2004; Sweller, 1999, 2004; Winn, 2003) noted that despite the alleged advantages of unguided environments to help students to derive meaning from learning materials, cognitive load theory suggests that the free exploration of a highly complex environment may generate a heavy working memory load that is detrimental to learning. This suggestion is particularly important in the case of novice learners, who lack proper schemas to integrate the new information with their prior knowledge (Kirschner, Sweller, & Clark 2006).

This may be a valid criticism of wholly unguided environments. But, here it seems the authors are conflating problem-based learning with other strategies with superficial similarities. Problem based learning may share similar characteristics with some unguided learning strategies but it is not unguided nor is it minimally guided. Problem-based learning provides extensive scaffolding and guidance to facilitate student learning (Hmelo, Duncan and Chinn 2007). Additionally, my own implementation of problem-based learning, heavily influenced by Schettino and others emphasizes the importance of prior knowledge in both the design and exploration of new problems, hopefully avoiding issues of students diving into content that is at a level that is too complex for them to tackle.

Kirschner, Sweller, & Clark also suggest that a certain lack of clarity on the part of PBL practitioners about the difference between learning a discipline and practicing a discipline might explain why it maintains its appeal to educators. All in all, a lack of clarity about the difference between learning a discipline and research in the discipline...has led many educators to advocate a problem-based method as the way to teach a discipline. (Kirschner, Sweller, & Clark 2006)

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It is important not to confuse being a mathematician with the content of the discipline itself. But distilling the PBL approach as merely a way to study the practices and habits of mathematician is a mischaracterization of its goals. Indeed, it focuses on a balance between practices and content but neither is relegated to the other. If that is the case in some instances of PBL I will certainly try to not make it the case in my own. In his book A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form Paul Lockhart does a good job of describing the importance of doing mathematics as a part of the study of mathematics: Mathematics is the music of reason. To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusionnot because it makes no sense to you, but because you gave it sense and you still don't understand what your creation is up to; to have a break-through idea; to be frustrated as an artist; to be awed and overwhelmed by an almost painful beauty; to be alive, damn it. (Lockhart 2009)

Relational Equity
Equitable collaborations are an integral part of the problem base classroom I wish to create. In practice this will often involve how students interact with each other when presenting their ideas and problem solving together. Jo Boaler has proposed the term relational equity as a way of describing the types of equitable interactions that occur between students in a classroom, these types of interactions include treating each other with respect and considering others viewpoints fairly. This notion of equity suggested by Boaler moves the focus on equity away from traditional measures of school achievement such as scores on standardized tests and instead investigates the ways in which students interact with each other in the classroom (Boaler 2008).

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Respect for others ideas - leading to positive intellectual relations Commitment to the learning of others Learned methods of communication and support

Equitable relations amongst students can be seen as an end in itself, but Boalers research suggests that classrooms that actively promote relational equity also perform better in traditional measures of school achievement. (Boaler 2008) Her findings suggest that an approach that stresses promoting the types of interactions and collaboration necessary to create good citizens in a 21st century society can also improve academic performance.

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Setting
Location - High Tech Middle School, Chula Vista
High Tech Middle Chula Vista was established in 2011. We are in our second operational year. The building is new and was also finished in 2011. Located on the edge of a large canyon, the school sits at one of the southern most points of Southern California. At night the lights of Tijuana reflect on our glass window.

Figure 1: Picture of the school and campus looking south.

Entering the school from the north, one is surrounded by the familiar markings of suburban Southern California. There is a mall down the street and a housing development sits directly across from the entrance. Upon exiting the school from the south side, one is immediately struck by the vast undeveloped wilderness. Rattlesnakes and coyotes are still found in abundance. Wild grasses dry to tumbleweed and mark the changing seasons. Hawks perch from the power lines along Discovery Falls Drive; they face the south, towards the canyon, full from a meal of field mice or preparing to hunt for another.

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The building is two stories and houses both a middle and elementary school. The two schools share a common entrance. The middle school extends to the south of the entrance on both floors, and the elementary school to the north. Our campus is shared with High Tech High Chula Vista.

The building was designed to be an educational learning space for its students, staff and the community. Hallways serve as galleries of student work. The classroom walls facing the hallways are made of glass. They provide a sense of openness and encourage work that is worth seeing as well as doing. Much of the buildings light is provided naturally through the creative use of day lighting. Our school is one of the most energy-efficient in the nation and 70% of the energy used by our facility is self-generated through the use of rooftop solar panels.

Figure 2: Solar panels supply much of our energy needs.

Demographics
Our student body is admitted by lottery. This system allocates a number of spots for each zip code based on its middle-school aged population compared to the corresponding population of the community. In this way our student population closely mirrors the student population of the

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communities they come from. Forty-two percent of our students are eligible for free or reduced lunch. The ethnicity of our student body is shown in the following table and chart.

African American

American Indian

Pacific Islander

Total students 115 111 113 339

Vietnamese

Caucasian

Japanese

Hispanic

Chinese

Filipino

Korean

Grade 6 7 8

Figure 3: Table of Ethnicities by Grade Level with Totals

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11 10 10 31

9 11 11 31

0 0 3 3

16 15 16 47

70 64 64 198

6 3 3 12

1 3 1 5

0 2 1 3

0 3 3 6

1 0 0 1

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Figure 4: Graph of Ethnicity of Student Body

Principles of Design, Three Key Integrations

The three schools on our campus share more than proximity. We share a common set of guiding principles that drive our work. The principles are shared by all of the High Tech schools, of which there are now eleven. The ideas are not strictly static, but rather interpreted and manifested in different ways across classrooms and schools. Despite this, they are clearly the foundation of our shared vision and form the basis of our common language.

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The HTH principles of design are personalization, adult world connections, common intellectual mission and teacher as designer. These principles are distilled from the earlier work of our founder and CEO Larry Rosenstock. The ideas are infused into all aspects of our educational approach at the middle school.

These principles of design highlight three key integrations, which are the signature of a High Tech school: 1. Connecting the classroom and the community 2. Integrating students 3. Linking hands and minds

The design principles and the three integrations are implemented through a project-based approach to learning. We learn by doing, by creating and by exhibiting our creations.

Connecting the Classroom and the Community Our classrooms are not seen as separate from our community; our projects are always connecting the classroom with the world around it in some way. Education is not something we provide in isolation.

The connections take many forms but common implementations include: o Consulting experts during the design phase of a project. o Inviting guest speakers and experts from the community to assist on projects. o Designing products that benefit or reflect the community.

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Some examples of how we have established this connection in the past year are: o Inviting a scientist and participant in the show The Colony to assist students in building devices to help them survive a hypothetical apocalypse scenario. o Inviting radio producers from NPR to help students produce radio pieces about stories from the border. o Having student families and community members help create altars for a project celebrating Dia de los Muertos.

Figure 5:Bringing expert guests into the classroom help students connect what they do in class to how it will be used in the outside world. Here, Amy West, scientist and contestant on the television show "The Colony" poses with students during the Dystopia to Utopia Project

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We also hold many public exhibitions of our students work, highlighting the importance of our work outside of the classroom and the purpose of it being created for a wider audience than just our academic community.

Figure 6: Exhibitions are one way of integrating the community into the classroom. This is the poster from our schools first exhibition. Integrating Students Admission at HTCV is non-selective, and we do not track our students. We have a higher percentage of special education students than the district as a whole and provide a fully inclusive environment to all our students with special academic needs. Heterogeneous grouping is both a point of pride and a challenge of our academic model. How to provide an appropriately challenging curriculum to all students in a classroom with a wide spectrum of abilities, maturity and previous skills is a question that is continually asked and constantly refined. Projects provide

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multiple entry points for students and varying degrees of challenge. Projects also give students choices which cater to individual passions and strengths. Often the grouping of students at all points of the academic spectrum leads to performance increases in all students. This is in part due to the high standards expected of all and the personalization of the academic programs.

Figure 7: Admission to HTMCV in not selective and we do not track our students.

Linking Hands and Minds Learning at HTMCV is applied. Our projects stress learning by doing in response to questions asked. Here are some examples from my projects over the last year: o How does the science air pressure effect the operation of a hovercraft? o How does a truss structure compare to an arch structure in the design and implementation of a bridge? Bryan Harms - Action Research Proposal 20

o How can you harness the power of the sun to cook food? o What is the difference between filtering water and purifying water?

The answer to these questions is both theoretical and applied. Students learn to successfully explain theories and apply them to products. In response to the above questions, they must build hovercrafts, water purification systems and solar cookers.

Figure 8: Learning is as much about doing as it reading.

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Figure 9: Concepts like scale and proportions can be integrated into projects.

My Classroom
I teach 8th graders: a team of 56 students broken into 2 classes of 28. I teach integrated math and science. I share these 56 students with a humanities teacher, and as a team we spend most of the day with them. Usually I spend about 2 hours with each group per day.

In 8th grade, we cover the physical sciences and applied mathematics including topics in algebra and pre algebra. I am in my fifth year with the High Tech organization and my fourth year as a teacher. My classroom is active. I am still, and will probably always be, refining the process of integrating math and science through projects.

To accommodate the way I teach, the setup of my room is always changing; I have three configurations that students know by heart. All of the desks are on wheels and the setup of the room can be changed in less than four minutes. The different classroom setups are designed to best utilize the space for the type of teaching or working we are doing. The two most common setups are:

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1. Seminar setup - half the class works independently while the other half works in seminar discussion groups. 2. Project groups - where students are setup in groups of four to collaborate more effectively

I am given a lot of freedom to decide how to go about designing a math program that meets my strengths as a teacher and the needs of my students. I have tried many different approaches and tweaks and with each year bring what I like and what has worked from years past to bear on the current year.

In my first three years of teaching I used a program called Judo Math, developed by another teacher in my organization. This year I have explored and experimented with problem based learning along with computer aided procedural practice. I plan to expand and refine this model next year.

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Methods
Overview
The action research question I am studying is: What effect does an approach to teaching mathematics that explicitly emphasizes problems, equitable collaborations, presentations of thought, and the construction of knowledge; have on students ability to think critically, the development of their problem solving skills and strategies, and on their perceptions of themselves as mathematicians? I will use the following methods to collect data:

surveys interviews work samples observations

The focus of my research will be my 8th grade mathematics students. I have a class of 56 eighth graders. I will not focus on a single class because I often mix the classes up. I will also decide on a smaller representative group consisting of four students. This group of four will be the focus of my observational, work sample and interview data collection.

In order to reach a conclusion about the effects of problem based mathematics on my classroom I will look at my students attitudes towards mathematics, their ability to identify and apply strategies of problem solving, their opinions about what mathematics is and what math students do, and their attitudes about their own mathematics abilities.

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Surveys
I will give a whole class survey three times, at the beginning middle and end of the research period. The purpose of these surveys is to capture and compare at three points along the way across my entire classroom. Topics to be surveyed include:

How they view mathematics (open ended, and scaled) How they view themselves as mathematicians How well math class meets their needs (pacing, attention, challenge)

Interviews
I will choose four students who are representative sample of my classroom and conduct three interviews with each student throughout the research period. I will attempt to collect personal reflections, which supply evidence about their attitudes toward mathematics and their attitude about themselves as mathematicians. In addition I want to see how they are experiencing the problem centered approach and what effect the different approaches we might try throughout the year have on them.

Interviews will provide an opportunity to delve more deeply into questions that might not be addressed in surveys or which lack detail in journals. The might also provide opportunities to expand on ideas brought up in journals or during observations.

Work samples
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detail. I will look at the journals of my representative sample group for evidence of critical thinking and the use of problem solving skills and strategies.

Observations
I will videotape my students during collaborative discussions and presentations of problem work. I will study these videos and look for evidence of critical thinking, the use of problem solving skills, and behavior that might suggest perceptions about mathematical dispositions and confidence. Additionally, I will keep a journal during these discussions and record my own observations of the same nature.

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Boaler, J. (2008). Promoting 'relational Equity' And High Mathematics Achievement Through An Innovative Mixed-ability Approach. British Educational Research Journal, 34(2), 167-194.

Hmelo-Silver, C. E., Duncan, R., & Chinn, C. A. (2007). Scaffolding and Achievement in Problem-Based and Inquiry Learning: A Response to Kirschner, Sweller, and Clark (2006). Educational Psychologist, 42(2), 99-107.

Kirschner, P. A., Sweller, J. a., & Richard, E. (2006). Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching. Educational Psychologist, 41(2), 75 - 86.

Lockhart, P. (2009). A mathematician's lament. New York, NY: Bellevue Literary Press.

Mukhopadhyay, S. (2011). Participatory and Dialogue Democracy in U.S. Mathematics Classroom. Democracy & Education, 18(3), 44-50.

Phillips Exeter Academy | Mathematics. (n.d.). Phillips Exeter Academy | Home. Retrieved May 1, 2013, from http://www.exeter.edu/academics/72_6532.as

Savery, J. (2006). Overview of Problem-based Learning: Definitions and Distinctions. Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning , 1(1), 9-20. Bryan Harms - Action Research Proposal 27

Strobel, J. , & van Barneveld, A. (2009). When is PBL More Effective? A Meta-synthesis of Meta-analyses Comparing PBL to Conventional Classrooms. Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 3(1).

Schettino, C. (n.d.). Problem-Based Learning | Carmel Schettino. Carmel Schettino | Mathematics education research, math classroom tips and events. Retrieved May 1, 2013, from http://www.carmelschettino.com/wp/research/problem-based-learning/

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