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Fractions are important mathematically and in everyday life but are complicated and difficult to learn. Teachers therefore need to be able to work out what students understand about fractions and...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article International comparative studies offer unique opportunities to interrogate and challenge embedded practices within education systems. In this paper we explore the textbook presentation of fractions...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article This article reports on the ways in which effective teachers plan instructional tasks that provide diverse learners with opportunities to access and engage with important mathematical concepts and...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article A critical component in the development of students' statistical thinking and reasoning is transnumerative thinking; that is, changing representations of data to engender an understanding of observed...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article Most children have trouble understanding decimals - they confuse them with whole numbers or with fractions. Here are some concrete suggestions for how children can use their everyday knowledge to...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article There is growing pressure for all teachers to become teachers of values. Here are some ways in which mathematics teachers can incorporate values education into their existing mathematics programme...
| Year published: 1999 | 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 much international evidence that parental involvement in children’s learning can positively influence achievement. New Zealand policy expects schools to nurture such involvement,...
| Year published: 2016 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: 
CM2016_109.pdf | Content type: Curriculum Matters article