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Sawatzki, Carly – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2016
As part of ongoing design-based research exploring financial literacy teaching and learning, ten tasks termed "financial dilemmas" were trialled by 14 teachers and more than 300 Year 5 and 6 students in 4 government primary schools in urban Darwin. Drawing on data related to two tasks--"Catching the bus" and "Buying…
Descriptors: Money Management, Elementary School Mathematics, Task Analysis, Problem Solving
Sullivan, Peter; Clarke, Doug; Cheeseman, Jill; Mornane, Angela; Roche, Anne; Sawatzki, Carly; Walker, Nadia – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
As part of a project exploring various aspects of teachers' choice and use of challenging mathematics tasks, we sought some responses from students on their preferences for the difficulty of tasks on which they might work and also on the ways of working. Despite the common finding that teachers are reluctant to pose challenges to their students…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Preferences, Mathematics Activities, Difficulty Level
Sawatzki, Carly – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
This paper reports the findings of research into an educational intervention featuring open-ended mathematical problems situated in "real life" contexts and associated pedagogies. "Money and financial mathematics" is the topic in focus, with tasks termed "financial dilemmas" being trialled by 35 teachers in 16…
Descriptors: Intervention, Educational Research, Problem Based Learning, Problem Solving