Publications

Research Team Publications

Research Members Related Publications

  • Mamolo, A., Buteau, C., & Muller, E. (forth.). Prospective mathematics and sciences teachers’ views on coding and computational thinking. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, April 2019.
  • Gannon, S. & Buteau, C. (2018). Integration of computational thinking in Canadian provinces. Proceedings of Computational Thinking in Mathematics Education Symposium, Scarborough (Canada), October 2017.
  • Broley, L., Buteau, C., & Muller, E. (2017). (Legitimate peripheral) computational thinking in mathematics. Proceedings of the Congress of European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME), Dublin (Ireland), February 2017.
  • Buteau, C., Gadanidis, G., Lovric, M., & Muller, E. (2017). Computational Thinking and Mathematics Curricula/La pensée computationnelle et le programme de mathématiques. Proceedings of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG) 2016 Annual Conference, Kingston (Canada), June 2016, 119-135.
  • Buteau, C. & Muller, E. (forthcoming). Systemic integration of programming in undergraduate mathematics: from implementation to theory. International Congress on Mathematical Education 2016, Hamburg (Germany).
  • Buteau, C., & Muller, E. (2016). Assessment in Undergraduate Programming-Based Mathematics Courses. Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education, 3(2): 97-114. DOI 10.1007/s40751-016-0026-4.
  • Buteau,  (2016). Undergraduates Learning of Programming for Simulation and Investigation of Mathematics Concepts and Real-World Modelling. Online proceedings of Didactics of Mathematics in Higher Education as a Scientific Discipline, Hannover (Germany), December 2015.
  • Buteau, C., Muller, E & Marshall, N. (2015). When a university mathematics department adopted course mathematics courses of unintentionally constructionist nature – really? Digital Experience in Mathematics Education,1(2-3), 133-155. DOI 10.1007/s40751-015-0009-x
  • Buteau, C., Muller, E., & Ralph, B (2015). Integration of Programming in the Undergraduate Mathematics Program at Brock University. In the Online Proceedings of Math+Coding Symposium, London (Ontario), June 2015.
  • Buteau, C., & Muller, E. (2014). Teaching Roles in a Technology Intensive Core Undergraduate Mathematics Course. In  Clark-Wilson, O. Robutti, N. Sinclair (eds): The Mathematics Teacher in the Digital Era(pp. 163-185). Springer Netherlands.
  • Marshall, N. & C. Buteau (2014). Learning by designing and experimenting with interactive, dynamic mathematics exploratory objects. International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 21 (2), 49-64.
  • Gueudet, G., Misfeld, M., Mesa, V., & C. Buteau (2014): Technologies, resources and instruments in university mathematics education. Research of Mathematics Education, Special Issue:  Institutional, sociocultural and discursive approaches to research in university mathematics education, 16 (2), 139-155.
  • Marshall, N., Buteau, C. & Muller, E. (2014). Exploratory Objects and Microworlds in University Mathematics Education. Teaching Mathematics and its Applications, 33, 27-38. DOI: 10.1093/teamat/hru004
  • Buteau, C., Marshall, N., & Muller, E. (2014). Learning university mathematics by creating and using fourteen ‘microworlds’. In G. Futschek & C. Kynigos (Eds.), Constructionism and Creativity. Proceedings of the 3rd International Constructionism Conference 2014 (pp. 401-406). Vienna, Austria: Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft (OCG).
  • Buteau, C., Marshall, N., & Muller, E. (2014). Perception on the Nature of Core University Mathematics Microworld-Based Courses. In G. Futschek & C. Kynigos (Eds.), Constructionism and Creativity. Proceedings of the 3rd International Constructionism Conference 2014 (pp. 379-389). Vienna, Austria: Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft (OCG).
  • Buteau, C., Muller, E., & Marshall, N. (2014). Competencies Developed by University Students in Microworld-type Core Mathematics Courses. In Proceedings of Joint Meeting Int. Group Psychology Mathematics Education (PME 38), Vancouver, Canada, 2014, pp. 209-18.
  • Martinovic, D., E. Muller & Buteau, C. (2013). Intelligent partnership with technology: Moving from a math school curriculum to an undergraduate program. In Computers in the Schools, 30:1-2, pp.76-101. DOI: 10.1080/07380569.2013.768502
  • Marshall, N., Buteau, C. & E. Muller (2013): Exploratory Objects and Microworlds in University Mathematics Education. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching, Bari (Italy), 187-193.
  • Mgombelo, J. & Buteau, C. (2012): Learning Mathematics for Teaching Through Designing, Implementing, and Testing Learning Objects. Issues in the Undergraduate Mathematics Preparation of School Teachers: The Journal, Vol 3. 16pp.
  • Muller, E., & C.Buteau (2012). An Innovative Integration of Evolving Technologies in Undergraduate Mathematics Education. In Essays on Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 2, Akis, V. (Ed.), Athens Institute for Education and Research (publisher), 117-122.
  • Buteau, C. & E. Muller (2010): Student Development Process of Designing and Implementing Exploratory and Learning Objects. In Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of European Research in Mathematics Education 
Lyon, France – Jan. 28th – Feb. 1, 2009, 1111-1120.
  • Mgombelo, J. & Buteau, C. (2010): Mathematics Teacher Education Research and Practice: Researching Inside the MICA Program. In Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of European Research in Mathematics Education (CERME 6), 
Lyon (France), 2009, 1901-1910.
  • Muller, E., Buteau, C., Ralph, B., Mgombelo, J. (2009): Learning mathematics through the design and implementation of Exploratory and Learning Objects. In International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education , 16 (2), pp. 63-74.
  • Mgombelo, J. & Buteau, C. (2009): Prospective Secondary Mathematics Teachers Repositioning by Designing, Implementing and Testing Learning Objects: A Conceptual Framework. In International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 40 (8), 1051-1068. DOI: 10.1080/00207390903236459
  • Buteau, C. & Muller, E. (2006). Evolving technologies integrated into undergraduate mathematics education. In L. H. Son, N. Sinclair, J. B. Lagrange, & C. Hoyles (Eds.), Proceedings for the Seventeenth ICMI Study Conference: Digital Technologies and Mathematics Teaching and Learning: Revisiting the Terrain, Hanoi University of Technology, 3rd-8th December, 2006, Hanoi (Vietnam) (c42)[CD-ROM], 8 pp.
  • Muller, E. and C. Buteau (2006): Un nouveau rôle de l’informatique dans la formation initiale des enseignants. In Bednarz, N., Mary, C. (Eds.), “L’enseignement des mathématiques face aux défis de l’école et des communautés”, Actes du colloque EMF 2006, Sherbrooke: Éditions du CRP [CD-ROM], 17 pp.

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  • Artigue, M. (2002). Learning mathematics in a CAS environment: The genesis of a reflection about instrumentation and the dialectics between technical and conceptual work. International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning, 7(3), 245-274.
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