One of a series of blogs on ‘building and sustaining active research collaborations with teachers of mathematics’ Written by Alison Clark-Wilson and Celia Hoyles: A recent research study, Developing teachers' mathematical knowledge using digital technology funded by the Nuffield Foundation has concluded aspects of the particular new knowledge and pedagogies that are demanded … [Read more...]
Using self-video within teacher and researcher collaborative research
One of a series of blogs on ‘building and sustaining active research collaborations with teachers of mathematics’ Written by Jenni Ingram and Nick Andrews: Collaborative research within education is both rewarding and complex. The Talk in Mathematics project involved two groups of maths teachers and some colleagues at the university working together on developing students' … [Read more...]
How do teachers describe mathematics tasks?
Written by Colin Foster and Matthew Inglis: Many different adjectives are used to describe the tasks that students are given in mathematics lessons. For example, a task could be described as ‘open’, ‘inquiry-based’, ‘procedural’ or ‘rich’. But what do these words mean to teachers and do they understand them in similar ways or in a variety of different ways? This is … [Read more...]
Teaching mathematics for social justice
One of a series of blogs on 'building and sustaining active research collaborations with teachers of mathematics' Written by Pete Wright: The Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice (TMSJ) Research Group, consisting of myself and five teacher researchers, was established in June 2013. Over the next 12 months we worked collaboratively to design, trial and evaluate a series of … [Read more...]