Taking Advantage of Incidental School Events to Engage with the Applications of Mathematics: The Case of Surviving the Reconstruction

Vince Geiger; Merrilyn Goos; Shelley Dole

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6540-5_15

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Taking Advantage of Incidental School Events to Engage with the Applications of Mathematics: The Case of Surviving the Reconstruction

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Taking Advantage of Incidental School Events to Engage with the Applications of Mathematics: The Case of Surviving the Reconstruction

Vince Geiger, Merrilyn Goos and Shelley Dole

Teaching Mathematical Modelling: Connecting to Research and Practice, pp.175-184

International Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling , Springer

2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6540-5_15

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Mathematics Education

Mathematical Knowledge

Tour Guide

Critical Orientation

Secondary Teacher

This paper reports on one aspect of a 2 year research and development project aimed at enhancing primary and secondary teachers’ instructional practices in numeracy. The project made use of Goos’ model of numeracy as a basis for assisting teachers to plan for teaching and also to reflect upon the effectiveness of their practice. As part of the project, teachers were challenged to develop learning experiences which were relevant to their own students’ lived-in worlds. One teacher took advantage of a major, potentially disruptive, building development within her school to design a sequence of lessons in which students were challenged to adapt to the changes that were associated with the construction. The chapter concludes by discussing the changes to the teacher’s disposition towards incorporating events from the students’ lived-in worlds into her teaching practice.

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Title: Taking Advantage of Incidental School Events to Engage with the Applications of Mathematics: The Case of Surviving the Reconstruction
Authors: Vince Geiger (Author) - Australian Catholic University
Merrilyn Goos (Author) - University of Queensland
Shelley Dole (Author) - University of Queensland
Contributors: Gloria Stillman (Editor) - Australian Catholic University
Gabriele Kaiser (Editor) - University of Hamburg
Werner Blum (Editor) - University of Kassel
Jill Brown (Editor) - Australian Catholic University
Publication details: Teaching Mathematical Modelling: Connecting to Research and Practice, pp.175-184
Series: International Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6540-5_15; 10.1007/978-94-007-6540-5
ISSN: 2211-4939; 2211-4939
ISBN: 9789400765405
Organisation Unit: Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99554405702621
Output Type: Book chapter

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