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Insights from Students' Private Work in Their Notebooks: How Do Students Learn from the Teacher's Examples?
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Yau, King Woon; Mok, Ida Ah Chee – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2016
Students' seatwork plays an important part in their learning in their lessons, and very often, students record their private work in the notebooks during seatwork. The students' private work in their notebooks reflects students' learning and thinking, representing explicit learning outcomes. The students' private work in their notebooks of 14…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Independent Study, Demonstrations (Educational), Task Analysis
Investigating Forms of Children's Writing in Grade 7 Mathematics Classrooms
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Ntenza, S. Philemon – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2006
Recent changes in mathematics curricula, both in South Africa and elsewhere, have begun to change the overwhelmingly symbolic nature of mathematics in schools (in the sense of use of mathematical symbolism), promoting more use of the oral and written language. Engaging students in "Writing-to-Learn" activities in mathematics classrooms…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Written Language
Didactic Material Confronted with the Concept of Mathematical Literacy
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Gellert, Uwe – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2004
This paper reflects on the use of didactic material in mathematics classes. It focuses on the mathematical activities of students and the didactical activities of teachers. Its point of departure is a critique of technical-managerial approaches to teaching, learning, and innovation. Based on this critique, fundamental tensions between the…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Mathematics Instruction, Class Activities, Educational Innovation