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Akyeampong, Kwame; Lussier, Kattie; Pryor, John; Westbrook, Jo – International Journal of Educational Development, 2013
Teacher education has an important role in ensuring quality of learning especially for the poorest children. The article draws on a study of teacher preparation for the early primary grades in six African countries--Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda--in reading and mathematics. Initial teacher education had the strongest impact on…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Mathematics
Samson, Duncan – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2012
Pattern generalisation has become an important feature of mathematics classrooms around the globe. Sometimes these activities focus purely on given numerical terms, but the use of pictorial or figural patterns is now becoming part of the standard repertoire for such generalisation exercises. From a pedagogic point of view, the investigation of…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Strategies
Oesterle, Susan, Ed.; Allan, Darien, Ed.; Liljedahl, Peter, Ed. – Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group, 2013
This submission contains the Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG), held at Laval University in Québec City, Québec. The CMESG is a group of mathematicians and mathematics educators who meet annually to discuss mathematics education issues at all levels of learning. The aims of the Study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conference Papers, Mathematics Education, Ethics