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To What Extent Are Students Expected to Participate in Specialised Mathematical Discourse? Change over Time in School Mathematics in England
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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
It Matters Which Class You Are In: Student-Centred Teaching and the Enjoyment of Learning Mathematics
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Noyes, Andrew – Research in Mathematics Education, 2012
The 2007 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Survey highlighted how attitudes to mathematics had declined sharply for students in many of the high attaining countries in the survey, England being no exception. There is a notable drop in positive attitudes to mathematics between 9 and 14, as well as a remarkable decline for 14 year olds…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Teaching Methods, Attitude Change, Educational Attitudes