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Clarke, Doug; Roche, Anne; Cheeseman, Jill; Sullivan, Peter – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2014
The Encouraging Persistence Maintaining Challenge (EMPC) Project has been working with secondary teachers in Melbourne as they seek to build persistence in students, during work on challenging mathematics tasks. The authors have developed sequences of tasks in various topic areas for Years 7 and 8, which require students to connect different…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Problem Solving, Educational Strategies, Mathematics Activities
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Munson, Jen; Morant, Tamyka S. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2011
By providing sustained, embedded professional development over the course of a school year--as well as involving teachers in creating high-quality assessment tasks, implementing the assessments with students, and tying assessment directly to instruction--the authors increased the value that their teaching community places on mathematical…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Teacher Student Relationship, Task Analysis, Teaching Models