PRISM project

Publications


Books

Reid, D., Dowden, B. Jeans, S., & d'Entremont, J. (2000) The psychology of students' reasoning in school mathematics: Grade 2 research report. Acadia University: Wolfville NS.   Available on the Web at http://www.acadiau.ca/~dreid/publications/prism-2/title_page.htm

Scholarly articles or working papers

Reid, D. (2002) Describing reasoning in early elementary school mathematics.  Teaching Children Mathematics, December 2002, 234-237.

Reid, D. (2002) Elements in accepting an explanation.  Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 20(4) pp. 527-547.

Reid D. A. (2001) Conjectures and refutations in Grade 5 Mathematics. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education 33(1) 5-29

Reid, D. & Drodge, E. (2001). Embodied Cognition and the Mathematical Emotional Orientation. Mathematical Thinking and Learning 2(4), pp. 249-267.

Scholarly conference papers

Reid, D. (2003) Forms and uses of abduction. Paper presented to Working Group 4: Proof and argumentation, at the Third annual conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education.  Bellaria, Italy.  Feb/March 2003.  Published online at: http://www-didactique.imag.fr/preuve/CERME%203%20papers/TG4-Reid.pdf

Reid, D. (2002). Describing young children’s deductive reasoning.   In A. Cockburn & E. Nardi (Eds.)  Proceedings of the Twentieth-sixth Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, (Vol. IV pp. 105-112) Norwich, UK.   

Reid, D. (2001) Proof, proofs, proving and probing: Research related to proof.  Short Oral presentation.  In M. van den Heuvel-Panhuizen (Ed.)  Proceedings of the Twentieth-Fifth Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education,(Vol. I, p. 360) Utrecht, Netherlands.  (Paper version available at http://www.acadiau.ca/~dreid/publications/proof/proof.htm)

Zack, V. and Reid, D. (2000) A proof ought to explain Topic group report. Proceedings of  the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group. Montréal. (Online at http://publish.edu.uwo.ca/cmesg/cmesg00/VZTG.html)

Reid, D. (1999).  Needing to explain: The mathematical emotional orientation.  In Orit Zaslavsky (Ed.) Proceedings of the Twentieth-third Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education,(Vol. 4 pp. 105-112) Haifa, Israel. (Online at http://www.acadiau.ca/final_needing_to_explain/needing_to_explain.htm)

Reid, D.& Dobbin, J. (1998). Why is proof by contradiction difficult? In Alwyn Olivier and Karen Newstead (Eds.) Proceedings of the Twentieth-second Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, (Vol. 4 pp. 41-48 ) Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Public lecture/conferences/workshops

Reid, D. (2002) Patterns and Kinds of Reasoning.  Seminar: Institute of Education, University of London. November 2002.

Reid, D., (2002) Dimensions in describing reasoning. Colloquium: Universität Hamburg.  April 2002.

Reid, D., Brown, L., and Coles, A. (2001). Observing systems.  Working session to be organized at the Twentieth-fifth Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Utrecht, July 2001.

Reid, D., Brown, L., Drodge, E., Kieren, T., Mason, J., Mason, R., Pimm, D. & Simmt, E. (1999). Cognition, Emotioning, and mathematics education: Enactivist perspectives. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montréal.

Knipping, C. & Reid, D. (2002). Cultural differences and the teaching of proof for all.  Symposium.  Proceedings of the Mathematics Education and Society conference.  Helsingor Denmark, April 2002.

Supported by a research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada