Explores a way to enhance teachers' knowledge in Taiwan. Constructs cases involving episodes and issues from real classroom events as part of a school-based professional development project. Discusses the effects of the process of constructing these cases on teachers' awareness of students' difficulties in learning mathematics, pedagogical content…

Attempts to make sense of the complexity of mathematics teaching and its development at secondary school level. Conducts a partnership between teachers and researchers in U.K. schools and analyzes interactions between the teacher and students at whole class and small group level. Uses the teaching triad as an analytical device and reflective agent…

Examines ways of establishing a learning environment that encourages and supports students' mathematical thinking. Describes a 15-year experienced teacher's personal journey over a two-year period and the changes the teacher experienced in beliefs about how students learn mathematics. Stresses the importance of reflection on student learning in…

Examines the classroom practice and beliefs of two novice elementary teachers during their first year of teaching and the first year of their involvement in a district-wide professional development project. Analyzes the challenges faced by the novice teachers and the professional developer who worked with them. Discusses the effects of teachers'…

Discusses the priorities that second-year education students hold for primary mathematics content and student learning. Reflects upon the mathematics subjects within the context of current research and mathematics curriculum policy and inferences about education students' beliefs. (Author/KHR)

Discusses the development, implementation, and evaluation of a unit designed to assist preservice teachers of quantitative literacy called numeracy. Investigates the relevance of quantitative literacy to daily life, aspects of quantitative literacy, and lessons in schooling using an internet site as a teaching resource. (Author/KHR)

Discusses the situations of seven teacher education centers in New Zealand. Assesses the influence of whether and how multicultural perspectives on mathematics teaching have been introduced into these programs. (Author/KHR)

Presents a comparative analysis of three teacher educators using a curriculum designed for use with elementary teachers in an inquiry group setting. Examines the process and demands of supporting teachers' learning and teachers' efforts to reform their practices. The central demand of supporting teachers' learning through inquiry involved…

Examines the collaborative efforts of a mathematics educator and statistician to help prospective elementary teachers develop statistical knowledge and experience through merging statistical investigation into existing elementary curricula. Offers insight into preservice teachers' statistical and pedagogical content knowledge based on their…

Examines experienced secondary school mathematics teachers' (n=17) conceptions of proof from their perspectives as teachers of school mathematics. Suggests that implementing "proof for all" may be difficult for teachers--teachers viewed proof as appropriate for the mathematics education of a minority of students. (Author/MM)

Examines the pedagogical tensions involved in trying to use students' ideas as the basis for class discussion while also ensuring that discussion is productive mathematically. This tension in teaching was not easily resolved. Throughout the school year the teacher shifted emphasis between maintaining the process and the content of the classroom…

Investigates how multimedia case studies of practice can support pre-service teachers in making meaning of complex classroom experiences and in developing strategies and rationales for using student thinking to guide instruction. Finds that the pre-service teachers were able to use their perspectives on a common practice to highlight some of the…

Presents a case study of a secondary school mathematics internship in which most of the elements of the internship ecology were aligned with National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) calls for reform. Findings showed that within this atmosphere, the reform curricular materials being used in the classroom had a strong and largely positive…

Active involvement and infusion of mathematics into familiar, everyday experiences are essential elements in challenging students to engage in true thinking. Presents an investigation on graphing that touches on all representations including tables of values, graphs, and verbal descriptions. (ASK)

Introduces a lesson that incorporates numeric, graphic, and algebraic approaches as well as a strong verbal communication component into the maximizing problem. (ASK)