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Topic outline

 

  • Time: 4 hours
    Level: Masters

 
 

Introduction

  • Introduction Resource
  • This unit focuses on your initial encounters with research. It invites you to think about how perceptions of mathematics have influenced you in your prior learning, your teaching and the attitudes of learners....
 

1: Forces for development

  • 1: Forces for development Resource
  • Working in mathematics education involves a sense of both past and future, and how the two combine to influence the present. It may seem that, because the past has already happened, it cannot be altered;...
 

2: Your own mathematics

  • 2: Your own mathematics Resource
  • It is crucial to remember that you are a learner of mathematics as well as a teacher. In this unit you will be asked to undertake some mathematical tasks. The aim of these tasks is not to improve your...
 

3: Work on your own mathematics

  • 3: Work on your own mathematics Resource
  • Two activities are given below. You are asked to work on them in turn and to record not only your working, but observations on what you notice about your emotions as you work through step by step.
 

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