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Calder, Nigel – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2015
This paper reports on scaffolding that is situated within a research project that examined the ways mathematical thinking emerged from student-centred inquiry. The project utilised qualitative methods to investigate a case study of a year-10 class (14-15-year-olds), at a new purpose-built secondary school designed to facilitate inquiry learning.…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Student Centered Learning, Inquiry, Mathematics Education
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Calder, Nigel; Brough, Chris – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2013
This paper examines how mathematical understandings might emerge through student-centred inquiry. Data is drawn from a research project on student-centred curriculum integration that situated mathematics within authentic problem-solving contexts and involved students in collaboratively constructed curriculum. The project involved case studies in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Centered Curriculum, Inquiry, Problem Solving