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ERIC Number: EJ940838
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Sep
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0732-3123
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Reviving Polya's "Look Back" in a Singapore School
Leong, Yew Hoong; Tay, Eng Guan; Toh, Tin Lam; Quek, Khiok Seng; Dindyal, Jaguthsing
Journal of Mathematical Behavior, v30 n3 p181-193 Sep 2011
This study is based on the stance that Polya's "Look Back," though understudied, remains relevant to Mathematics curricula that place emphasis on problem solving. Although the Singapore Mathematics curriculum adopts the goal of teaching Look Back, research about how it is carried out in actual classroom practice is rare. In our project, we focus on a redesign of a teacher development programme that is targeted to help teachers realize Polya's original vision of Look Back in the classroom. We report the cases of two teachers who have participated in the teacher development programme: their thinking about Look Back (through interview records) and their interpretation of Look Back in their classroom practice (through video records). By bringing these two spheres of data together, we discuss their degree of "buy-in" to Look Back in the overall problem solving enterprise. (Contains 2 tables and 2 figures.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Singapore
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