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44
Citations
11707
World Ranking
4043
National Ranking
1927

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Patrick W Thompson is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Mathematics, with a strong focus on Education and related subfields such as Statistics and Probability, Modeling and Simulation, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Clinical Psychology.

The main topics covered in Thompson's work include Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques, Cognitive and Developmental Aspects of Mathematical Skills, Science Education and Pedagogy, Mathematics Education and Programs, Statistics Education and Methodologies, Creativity in Education and Neuroscience, and Family and Disability Support Research.

Thompson has contributed to multiple recent publications. These include:

  • Ideas foundational to calculus learning and their links to students' difficulties, 2021, ZDM
  • School students' preparation for calculus in the United States, 2021, ZDM
  • Secondary teachers' meanings for function notation in the United States and South Korea, 2020, The Journal of Mathematical Behavior
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Symptoms Among Children Enrolled in the Study to Explore Early Development (SEED), 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Mathematics, Education, and Other Endangered Species: From Intuition to Inhibition, 2020, Mathematical Thinking and Learning

Frequent co-authors in Thompson's research include Guershon Harel, Gülseren Karagöz Akar, Ismail Zembat, Selahattin Arslan, and Hyunkyoung Yoon.

Their work is often published in venues such as ZDM, The Journal of Mathematical Behavior, UNC Libraries, Mathematical Thinking and Learning, and Transfusion.

In addition to journal articles, Thompson has authored books published by Springer Nature (Netherlands), including Quantitative Reasoning in Mathematics and Science Education (2022).

Thompson was recognized as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Teaching experiment methodology: Underlying principles and essential elements

    Leslie P. Steffe;Patrick W. Thompson;Ernst von Glasersfeld

  • The development of the concept of speed and its relationship to concepts of rate

    Patrick W Thompson

  • Images of Rate and Operational Understanding of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

    Patrick W. Thompson

  • Students, Functions, and the Undergraduate Curriculum †

    Patrick W. Thompson

  • Toward a framework for the development of mathematical knowledge for teaching

    Jason Silverman;Patrick W. Thompson

  • Fractions and multiplicative reasoning

    Patrick W Thompson;L Saldanha

  • Calculational and Conceptual Orientations in Teaching Mathematics

    Alba G. Thompson;Randolph A. Philipp;Patrick W. Thompson

  • Foundational Reasoning Abilities that Promote Coherence in Students' Function Understanding

    Michael Oehrtman;Marilyn Carlson;Patrick W. Thompson

  • Talking about Rates Conceptually, Part I: A Teacher's Struggle.

    Patrick W. Thompson;Alba G. Thompson

  • Quantitative reasoning, complexity, and additive structures

    Patrick W. Thompson

  • 4 Quantitative Reasoning and the Development of Algebraic Reasoning

    Patrick W Thompson;J Smith

  • Talking about rates conceptually, Part II: Mathematical knowledge for teaching

    Alba G. Thompson;Patrick W. Thompson

  • Notations, Conventions, and Constraints: Contributions to Effective Uses of Concrete Materials in Elementary Mathematics

    Patrick W. Thompson

  • Experience, Problem Solving, and Learning Mathematics: Considerations in Developing Mathematics Curricula

    Patrick W. Thompson

  • THE CONCEPT OF ACCUMULATION IN CALCULUS

    Patrick W. Thompson;Jason Silverman

  • Interaction or intersubjectivity? A reply to Lerman

    Leslie P. Steffe;Patrick W. Thompson

  • CONCEPTIONS OF SAMPLE AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO STATISTICAL INFERENCE

    Luis Saldanha;Patrick Thompson

  • Commission on European Affairs: Appropriate standards of epilepsy care across Europe

    M. J. Brodie;S. D. Shorvon;R. Canger;P. Halasz

  • Technology in Mathematics Education Research: The First 25 Years in the JRME

    James J. Kaput;Patrick W. Thompson

  • Quantitative reasoning and mathematical modeling

    Patrick W Thompson

  • Intricacies of statistical inference and teachers’ understandings of them

    Patrick W. Thompson;Yan Liu;Luis A. Saldanha

Frequent Co-Authors

John S. Duncan
John S. Duncan University College London
Matthias J. Koepp
Matthias J. Koepp University College London
Christian Vollmar
Christian Vollmar Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Mark P. Richardson
Mark P. Richardson King's College London
Veena Kumari
Veena Kumari Brunel University London
Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh
Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh King's College London
Mark R. Symms
Mark R. Symms University College London
Paul Cobb
Paul Cobb Vanderbilt University
Gavin P. Winston
Gavin P. Winston Queen's University
Rhiannon Corcoran
Rhiannon Corcoran University of Liverpool

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