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Sullivan, Peter; Clarke, Doug; Cheeseman, Jill; Mornane, Angela; Roche, Anne; Sawatzki, Carly; Walker, Nadia – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
As part of a project exploring various aspects of teachers' choice and use of challenging mathematics tasks, we sought some responses from students on their preferences for the difficulty of tasks on which they might work and also on the ways of working. Despite the common finding that teachers are reluctant to pose challenges to their students…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Preferences, Mathematics Activities, Difficulty Level
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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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Clarke, Doug; Roche, Anne – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2009
In this article, the authors discuss the use by teachers of "Type 2 tasks" within the Task Types in Mathematics Learning (TTML) Project, i.e., those in which the mathematics is situated within a contextualised practical problem. It is argued that these kinds of tasks have great potential for challenging and engaging students, and showing…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction, Educational Strategies