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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
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
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 the 'salad bowl' of ethnic and cultural diversity of Hawai'i, there are attempts to make school work more relevant to all cultures, including involuntary minorities such as the indigenous...
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A student in her final year at a College of Education reflects on a lesson she gave, taped and transcribed. A model of self-appraisal, which will also stimulate thoughts about how to teach junior...
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
St. Patrick's College, Campbelltown, NSW, teaches mathematics to the senior classes by bringing all the pupils together for lectures, followed by class-sized tutorials, not all compulsory....
| Year published: 1992 | 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
In this case study, we follow the career of one student teacher (Ellen) from her pre-service training to her first year as a mathematics teacher. As part of a research project about what it means to...
| Year published: 2021 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article