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In this article, Yvonne, a junior school teacher, describes how she decided to explore how key competencies could be integrated into the daily programme, and assessed, without creating extra workload...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In this article, Yvonne, a junior school teacher, describes how she decided to explore how key competencies could be integrated into the daily programme, and assessed, without creating extra workload...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
The aim of this article is to comment on the ways in which beliefs and theories of learning affect the teaching and learning of mathematics. When mathematics is viewed as a static body of knowledge,...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters 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
Fractions are known to be difficult. Jonathan Fisher explores why this is so, looking in particular at the crucial foundation concepts of part-whole relationships and partitioning. He outlines common...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2009_2_012.pdf | Content type: Set article
The integration of Number and Algebra into one strand in The New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007) raises questions about the relationship between these two branches of mathematics and...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
The Montessori movement recently celebrated a century of international education, spanning from early childhood through to tertiary experience. The first Casa dei Bambini, or children’s house, was...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
This article describes how a teacher in a high school classroom facilitated her students' acquisition and use of the specialist language of mathematics. Using ideas from second language acquisition,...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article reports on the analysis of a videotape of four children participating in a group mathematical task. The authors discuss the ways that the context, social organisation, and resources of...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Instruction can help students develop a richer understanding of estimation and a wider range of strategies.
The students in this study started with a fairly limited understanding of estimation,...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2005_1_048.pdf | Content type: Set article