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This chapter presents three different routes to the formulation of the teaching research (TR) questions practiced in the community of teacher-researchers of the Bronx. The differences and similarities among them are interesting. On the one hand, their natural development in the context of improving the general quality of teaching is described by Vrunda Prabhu, followed by William Baker’s discussion that carries a higher level of specification in the context of a large scale teaching experiment involving many students from different sections of the course in both colleges.
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Prabhu, V., Baker, W., Czarnocha, B. (2016). How to Arrive at a Teaching-Research Question?. In: Czarnocha, B., Baker, W., Dias, O., Prabhu, V. (eds) The Creative Enterprise of Mathematics Teaching Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-549-4_13
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