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Zanini, Nadir; Benton, Tom – Cambridge Assessment, 2015
In this study, the link between mathematics achievement, curriculum, teaching methods and resources used in the classrooms is investigated at an international level, allowing for country-specific factors potentially affecting educational achievement. More specifically, the aim of this research was twofold: on the one hand to investigate the…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Teachers
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Cheng, Qiang – Frontiers of Education in China, 2014
Although teaching quality is seen as crucial in affecting students' performance, what types of instructional practices constitute quality teaching remains a question. With the theoretical assumptions of conceptual and procedural mathematics teaching as a guide, this study examined the types of quality mathematics instructional practices that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Teaching Styles, Educational Quality
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Richland, Lindsey Engle – Cognition and Instruction, 2015
Deictic linking gestures, hand and arm motions that physically embody links being communicated between two or more objects in the shared communicative environment, are explored in a cross-cultural sample of mathematics instruction. Linking gestures are specifically examined here when they occur in the context of communicative analogies designed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nonverbal Communication, Role, Mathematics Instruction
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Ekawati, Rooselyna; Lin, Fou-Lai – Indonesian Mathematical Society Journal on Mathematics Education, 2014
In this study, we aimed at demonstrating the power of Variation Theory in exploring the local situation of Indonesian teachers and Teacher Professional Development program. The projection of Variation theory regarding the enterprise of teaching results on the need of sensitivity of students and exemplary teaching strategy that differ with teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
Greenlees, Jane; Patahuddin, Sitti Maesuri; Lowrie, Tom – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
The World Bank 2007 TIMSS Video Study provided a distinctive insight into the practices of the Indonesian classroom and identified key strengths and weaknesses of current teaching. This investigation considered this evidence in the development of a structured lesson design that specifically addressed the instructional practices of the teaching and…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Classroom Techniques, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
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Ng, Chris Fook Sheng; Ismail, Noor Azina – Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
This paper provides a brief understanding of the educational technology in the teaching and learning of mathematics to Form Two students (equivalent to the eighth-graders) in Malaysia. In particular, it attempts to understand the relationships between educational technology and mathematics achievement in both the urban and rural schools. The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology