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How do teachers describe mathematics tasks?

9th June 2017 by Pmayorga

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...]

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