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Title: Teaching Better Mathematics Learning Better Mathematics


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Teaching Better MathematicsLearning Better
Mathematics
  • A Research and Development Project supported by
    NFR and SKF

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Teaching/learning better mathematics?
  • How can students learn mathematics better?
  • How can teachers provide better opportunities for
    students to learn mathematics?
  • What kinds of activity in classrooms contribute
    to deeper mathematical understandings?
  • How can didacticians contribute to improving
    mathematics learning and teaching?
  • What roles should/can students, teachers and
    didacticians play in the developmental process

3
Aim, motive, goal
  • A developmental aim is that students learning
    of mathematics will improve as teachers and
    didacticians come to know more about learning
    processes and the tasks and tools that promote
    learning.

4
Learning communities
Working
Asking questions
Thinking
TOGETHER
Tackling problems
Seeking answers
Exploring
Seeking new possibilities
Discussing outcomes
Looking critically
In learning mathematics
In teaching mathematics
In researching mathematics learning and teaching
5
Inquiry Processes
  • Questioning
  • Exploring
  • Investigating
  • Searching
  • Finding out

6
Inquiry
  • Ask questions
  • Seek answers
  • Recognise problems
  • Seek solutions
  • Invent
  • Wonder
  • Imagine
  • Look critically

to
Inquiry as a way of being
from
Inquiry as a tool
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Community
  • Working together
  • Talking together
  • Knowing together
  • Shared aims
  • Shared practice
  • Shared activity
  • Shared responsibility
  • Engagement in a joint enterprise knowledge
    grows in the community

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WHO?
  • School owners
  • School leaders
  • Teachers
  • Didacticians
  • Student teachers
  • Pupils
  • Using inquiry together to develop knowledge and
    understanding

9
Inquiry communities
  • Working together and asking critical questions
    about what we do, how and why we do it
  • What?
  • Why?
  • How?

Learning through critical exploration of our
own thinking and practice
10
Research
  • is systematic inquiry made public
    (Stenhouse)

Systematic Inquiry Public
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Three complexly inter-related learning
communities
  • Pupils learning mathematics
  • Teachers learning about teaching mathematics
  • Didacticians learning about ways in which
    mathematics teaching can develop

12
Researching together
  • By engaging together in inquiry processes in a
    systematic way we are all researchers
  • The focus of research is
  • our own practice,
  • our own learning,
  • our own growth of knowledge

13
An inquiry cycle
  • Thinking and planning
  • Action in practice
  • Observation of action
  • Reflection and review
  • Feedback

14
In the project
  • Schools and teachers decide own goals for
    development
  • Didacticians work with schools and teachers to
    use inquiry in the developmental process
  • Workshops or seminars at the university college
  • Action in teacher team in a school
  • Research into the action process

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Own goals in school
  • Better learning for pupils.
  • What is it that you want to achieve?
  • For example,
  • Using tasks that really get pupils thinking
  • Asking more open mathematical questions
  • Working on pre-algebra with young children
  • Finding effective ways of using computers
  • Finding new ways of addressing a text book topic
  • Be realistic and not too ambitious

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How didacticians can help
  • Talking with teachers about what is possible in
    school
  • Providing workshops to open up mathematics and
    discuss possibilities
  • Offering courses in areas that teachers want e.g.
  • in a mathematical topic
  • in use of computers
  • in approaches to classroom research
  • Researching the developmental process

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Teachers and didacticians are researchers
Research is systematic inquiry made public.
  • Teachers inquire into what is possible for the
    classroom and into their pupils mathematical
    learning
  • Didacticians inquire into how to support teachers
    and into the developmental process
  • ALL learn from the research activity new
    knowledge results in both practice and theory

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Research that promotes development
  • Research

Development
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