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Povey, Hilary; Boylan, Mark; Adams, Gill – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2021
School life in England (and beyond) is temporally structured, with learning planned as a time-limited activity, both within lessons and across units of work. Discourses of performativity and measurement pervade school life in many societies and, what we call "regulated time" controls school-based learning. In particular, primary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Time
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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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Harries, Tony; Suggate, Jennifer – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2006
Numbers can be represented in a variety of ways--through pictures, diagrams, symbols. Each representation highlights different features of the number and the number system. This study aims to explore pupil understanding of number both within and across representations. A computer environment (suite of programmes) was created within which…
Descriptors: Number Systems, Number Concepts, Foreign Countries, Primary Education