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Katrine Sharp Rogers; Claudi Thomas; Hilary Holmes – Open Learning, 2024
Active learning in mathematics can lead to deeper understanding than passively listening to a lecture, yet recent studies indicate that didactic teaching dominates online tutorials. This study investigated student participation in three types of activity: solving mathematical problems via polling, on-screen activities on a shared whiteboard and…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Active Learning, Mathematics Activities, Synchronous Communication
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Foster, Colin; Inglis, Matthew – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2017
Curricular implementations are unlikely to deliver the anticipated benefits for mathematics learners if written guidance to teachers is interpreted and enacted differently from the ways that policymakers and curriculum designers intend. One way in which this could happen is in relation to the mathematics tasks that teachers deploy in the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics, Foreign Countries
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Morgan, Candia; Tang, Sarah – Research in Mathematics Education, 2016
From a discursive perspective, differences in the language in which mathematics questions are posed change the nature of the mathematics with which students are expected to engage. The project The Evolution of the Discourse of School Mathematics (EDSM) analysed the discourse of mathematics examination papers set in the UK between 1980 and 2011. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics, Mathematics Education, Discourse Analysis