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Wing, Tony – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2009
It is argued that the discourse currently regulating early years mathematical development in the UK and elsewhere is "producing its own truths" in an unhelpfully narrowing way, restricting the objects, imagery, and symbols involved to those arising within "everyday" or "realistic" situations, and producing an…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Foreign Countries, Imagery, Instructional Materials
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Dickinson, Paul; Eade, Frank – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2004
The curriculum for eleven-year old students in the United Kingdom, currently adopted by most schools, includes solving linear equations with the unknown on one side only before moving onto those with the unknown on both sides in later years. School textbooks struggle with the balance between developing algebraic understanding and training…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving