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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
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Clarke, Doug – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2006
About fifteen years ago, the author discovered an interesting activity in some materials that Malcolm Swan from the Shell Centre (University of Nottingham, UK) had developed for the English National Curriculum Council in 1991. The activity, one which has been used by several presenters in professional development workshops in Australia in recent…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Middle School Students, Foreign Countries, Middle Schools