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...]