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Mathematics is more than numbers and measurement. It is a way of thinking which allows concepts to be built up; problems to be explored and solved; conjectures to be made and examined; and complex...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The Australian National Statement on Mathematics has proposed that "all people need to develop a good sense of number". What is this number sense, which can be elusive yet empowering?
| Year published: 1998 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Based on research into the thinking processes of young children, here are suggestions for teaching the subject of random generators, such as coins, dice, and spinners.
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
With the focus in mathematics teaching moving away from the mastery of skills and facts towards the understanding and making sense of mathematics, it is not always appropriate to "test" knowledge at...
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Research into the use of Beginning School Mathematics shows that the resource must be used flexibly and creatively in order to achieve the best mathematics learning amongst junior school children.
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Not all teachers are comfortable with using the technique of problem solving, which is an attempt to find the answer to a problem when the method of solution is not known. This research shows how...
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Exciting ways young children use calculators. And no, calculators do not inhibit learning.
| Year published: 1995 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In four different countries, including our own, the same problems keep cropping up - children do not connect simple tasks, such as sharing, with the written fractions they meet in class. Research and...
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Methods of assessment are themselves assessed: norm based, mastery based and interview techniques have been researched. Problems with each are faced and alternatives discussed.
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Lessons from Mrs A and Mrs P: Helping Children Understand the Formal Symbolic Language of Arithmetic
The way infant children learnt some new maths was matched with the way their teachers taught. The result is some more hints for the struggle of 'how to get it right.'
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article