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There is a lot to be learnt about how to teach a subject from what practitioners do every day. An insight into what delights mathematicians and what could delight our pupils.
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The first comprehensive study in New Zealand which shows that children taught mathematics in a second language (in this case Māori) achieved better than comparable children at a neighbouring school...
| Year published: 1995 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
There is a danger that by trying to support students' learning teachers may reduce the learning demands on students by doing the thinking and processing for them.
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The author describes a study in which videotaped interviews from the NEMP project were analysed to see how children explained their answers to questions involving the commutative (“changing the order...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The focus of this article is the strategies that young children use to find the volume of rectangular prisms. Children were observed during teaching sessions and their solutions to follow-up...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article explores how teachers work at establishing a web of relationships within the mathematics classroom community that will lead to learning.
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
There is little research about the experiences of students in Māori-medium education learning mathematics. This article reveals what these students see as their teacher’s role, and the advice that...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Years 4 and 5 students explore and articulate their understanding of number properties. How can their ability to think algebraically be enhanced?
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Visual texts such as linear scales are in common use in mathematics. However, to use these effectively students need to develop a language to discuss the concepts and mathematics embedded within them...
| Year published: 2014 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
How teachers’ subject knowledge in mathematics enhances documentation of young children’s mathematical learning is explored together with strategies for sharing this learning with parents and whānau...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article