ERIC Number: EJ1461576
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Mar
Pages: 26
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ISSN: ISSN-1033-2170
EISSN: EISSN-2211-050X
Available Date: 2023-12-22
Describing a Teacher's Pedagogical Mathematical Knowledge in STEM Teaching
Seyum Getenet1; Jill Fielding2; Ian Hay3; Rosemary Callingham3
Mathematics Education Research Journal, v37 n1 p1-26 2025
Describing and analyzing teaching practice has been a focus of researchers interested in the interaction and connections between teachers' content knowledge and their pedagogical knowledge. This study described the role of a teacher's mathematical content and pedagogical content knowledge in involving students in learning and solving Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) problems in an Australian primary school context. The Knowledge Quartet (KQ) is a widely recognised framework originally developed to observe classroom mathematics teaching and analyze mathematics teaching practices. We use the KQ as a theoretical/organizational framework against which to thematically analyze one teacher's classroom pedagogy to investigate 1) the utility of the KQ framework for describing and analyzing a teacher's mathematical lesson within an integrated STEM inquiry context and 2) how a teacher's pedagogical mathematical knowledge supports a focus on inquiry-based STEM integrated teaching. The study involved a teacher and 26 Year 5 students in an Australian classroom. Data included classroom video recordings, researcher observation notes, and students' artefacts. The video recordings were transcribed and analyzed using the KQ framework. The observation notes and artefacts were used to validate and support this analysis. The paper identifies and provides examples of different aspects of the KQ in the teaching sequence and provides examples of how integrated STEM content can be effectively incorporated into the primary school classroom. The relevance and significance of the KQ framework and the teaching of integrated STEM content in primary school are reviewed and discussed within the paper.
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Mathematics Instruction, STEM Education, Elementary School Teachers, Knowledge Level, Inquiry, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 5; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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Author Affiliations: 1University of Southern Queensland, School of Education, Springfield Central, Australia; 2University of New England, School of Education, Armidale, Australia; 3University of Tasmania, Faculty of Education, Launceston, Australia