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The Design of Tasks in Support of Teachers' Development of Coherent Mathematical Meanings
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Thompson, Patrick W.; Carlson, Marilyn P.; Silverman, Jason – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2007
We examine the role of tasks that have the intended effect of teachers re-conceiving the mathematics they teach as comprising a coherent body of meaningful ideas. We ground our discussion in ideas of trigonometry and modular functions and draw from a professional development research project to illustrate our approach. In this project, many…
Descriptors: Trigonometry, Faculty Development, Natural Language Processing, Arithmetic