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Wander, Roger; Pierce, Robyn – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2009
In early 2008 researchers from the University of Melbourne's "New Technologies for Teaching Mathematics" project created a lesson for the Year 10 students at their Victorian research schools. Two important goals of secondary school mathematics education are to build students' conceptual knowledge and to teach students to think…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Animals, Mathematics Education, Problem Sets
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Koellner-Clark, Karen; Lesh, Richard – School Science and Mathematics, 2003
This paper describes a proportional reasoning problem set within a real-life context and a complete analysis of one small group discussion of this problem over the course of a 90-minute block. The seventh-grade students' discourse is described to provide insights into typical mathematical interpretations of this problem, as well as some…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Problem Sets, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematical Logic