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Nicora Placa

Assistant Professor

CUNY--Hunter College

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Nicora Placa is currently serving as a Curriculum And Teaching Assistant Professor at Cuny--Hunter College.

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CUNY--Hunter College

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learning sciences mathematics education education mathematics cognitive science educational research experiential learning educational strategies learning theory cognition educational psychology active learning concept formation learning-by-doing numeracy learning through activity design category theory philosophy of mathematics mathematical logic computational complexity approximate reasoning learning analytics applied cognitive psychology ethnographic theory behavioral education educational assessment conceptual knowledge acquisition instructional design learning methodologies foundation of mathematics mathematical linguistics learning problems computational thinking public participation participatory decision-making numerical competence mathematical concept learning anticipatory stages theoretical development integrated theory mathematics conceptual learning activity research program fraction multiplication mathematical concepts fraction concepts ratio understanding whole-number multiplication intensive quantities multiplication-of-fractions algorithm equivalent fraction concepts empirically-based trajectory teacher education

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An Empirically-Based Trajectory for Fostering Abstraction of Equivalent Fraction Concepts: A Study of Learning Through Activity. Journal of Mathematical Behavior (2018)

learning theoryexperiential learninglearning scienceseducationeducational psychologyequivalent fraction conceptsempirically-based trajectorycognitive scienceconcept formationapplied cognitive psychologycognitionlearning through activity

Empirically-Based Hypothetical Learning Trajectories for Fraction Concepts: Products of the Learning Through Activity Research Program. The Journal of Mathematical Behavior (2018)

learning theoryexperiential learninglearning sciencesfraction conceptseducationactive learningeducational strategieslearning-by-doinglearning problemscognitive scienceeducational researchcognitionmathematics education

Fostering Construction of a Meaning for Multiplication That Subsumes Whole-Number and Fraction Multiplication: A Study of the Learning Through Activity Research Program. The Journal of Mathematical Behavior (2018)

Martin A. SimonMelike KaraAnderson NortonNicora Placa

activity research programlearning scienceseducationactive learningfraction multiplicationmathematicsmathematics education

Promoting a Concept of Fraction-As-Measure: A Study of Learning Through Activity. Journal of Mathematical Behavior (2018)

numeracybehavioral educationnumerical competencelearning theoryexperiential learninglearning scienceseducational assessmenteducationcognitive developmenteducational psychologyeducational strategieslearning through activitycognitive scienceeducational researchexperimental psychologycognitionmathematics education

Promoting Reinvention of a Multiplication-Of-Fractions Algorithm: A Study of the Learning Through Activity Research Program. The Journal of Mathematical Behavior (2018)

numeracyexperiential learninglearning sciencescomputational thinkinglearning analyticsactive learninglearning-by-doingdata sciencemultiplication-of-fractions algorithmcomputer sciencemathematics education

Towards an Integrated Theory of Mathematics Conceptual Learning and Instructional Design: The Learning Through Activity Theoretical Framework. The Journal of Mathematical Behavior (2018)

integrated theorydesignlearning scienceseducationeducational strategiesinstructional designmathematics conceptual learningeducational researchlearning methodologiesmathematics education

Categorizing and Promoting Reversibility of Mathematical Concepts. Educational Studies in Mathematics (2016)

foundation of mathematicsmathematical conceptsapproximate reasoningcategory theorymathematical linguisticsphilosophy of mathematicsconcept formationmathematical logicmathematicsmathematics education

Participatory and Anticipatory Stages of Mathematical Concept Learning: Further Empirical and Theoretical Development. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education (2016)

conceptual knowledge acquisitionlearning theorymathematical concept learninglearning sciencesanticipatory stageseducationeducational strategieseducational psychologytheoretical developmentcognitive scienceconcept formationeducational researchmathematicsmathematics education

Demonstrating the Usefulness of the Participatory-Anticipatory Distinction.. (2012)

communicationparticipatory-anticipatory distinctionethnographic theorycommunity-engaged researchpublic participationparticipatory decision-making

Reasoning About Intensive Quantities in Whole-Number Multiplication? a Possible Basis for Ratio Understanding.. (2012)

ratio understandingcomputational complexitywhole-number multiplicationintensive quantitiesnumber theoryapplied mathematicsmathematics

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Nicora Placa

Assistant Professor

CUNY--Hunter College

Affiliations

Curriculum and Teaching

Nicora Placa is currently serving as a Curriculum And Teaching Assistant Professor at Cuny--Hunter College.

Honors

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Nicora Placa

CUNY--Hunter College

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Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

An Empirically-Based Trajectory for Fostering Abstraction of Equivalent Fraction Concepts: A Study of Learning Through Activity. Journal of Mathematical Behavior (2018)

Empirically-Based Hypothetical Learning Trajectories for Fraction Concepts: Products of the Learning Through Activity Research Program. The Journal of Mathematical Behavior (2018)

Martin A. SimonMelike KaraAnderson NortonNicora Placa

activity research programlearning scienceseducationactive learningfraction multiplicationmathematicsmathematics education

Promoting a Concept of Fraction-As-Measure: A Study of Learning Through Activity. Journal of Mathematical Behavior (2018)

Promoting Reinvention of a Multiplication-Of-Fractions Algorithm: A Study of the Learning Through Activity Research Program. The Journal of Mathematical Behavior (2018)

Towards an Integrated Theory of Mathematics Conceptual Learning and Instructional Design: The Learning Through Activity Theoretical Framework. The Journal of Mathematical Behavior (2018)

integrated theorydesignlearning scienceseducationeducational strategiesinstructional designmathematics conceptual learningeducational researchlearning methodologiesmathematics education

Categorizing and Promoting Reversibility of Mathematical Concepts. Educational Studies in Mathematics (2016)

foundation of mathematicsmathematical conceptsapproximate reasoningcategory theorymathematical linguisticsphilosophy of mathematicsconcept formationmathematical logicmathematicsmathematics education

Participatory and Anticipatory Stages of Mathematical Concept Learning: Further Empirical and Theoretical Development. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education (2016)

Demonstrating the Usefulness of the Participatory-Anticipatory Distinction.. (2012)

communicationparticipatory-anticipatory distinctionethnographic theorycommunity-engaged researchpublic participationparticipatory decision-making

Reasoning About Intensive Quantities in Whole-Number Multiplication? a Possible Basis for Ratio Understanding.. (2012)

ratio understandingcomputational complexitywhole-number multiplicationintensive quantitiesnumber theoryapplied mathematicsmathematics

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