MathTASK: Designing and implementing situation specific activities for mathematics teacher education and professional development

Biza, Irene ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1727-3884 (2023) MathTASK: Designing and implementing situation specific activities for mathematics teacher education and professional development. Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education. pp. 75-81. ISSN 2811-6666

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Abstract

MathTASK is a research and development programme that engages mathematics teachers with challenging and highly contextualised classroom situations in the form of tasks (mathtasks). Teacher responses to these tasks reveal their mathematical and pedagogical discourses and provide opportunities to articulate, reflect and shift said discourses. These tasks have been used as instruments for research as well as teacher education and professional development in the UK, Greece and Brazil. In this overview presentation of the MathTASK programme , we first introduce the MathTASK programme and its principles- and we exemplify these principles with one mathtask (simplification task). We then present a summary of theoretical constructs that have emerged in the course of analysis of MathTASK data before concluding with observations on the benefits of using mathtasks as a means to trigger and facilitate mathematics teachers’ reflection on their practice.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: mathtask,classroom situations,mathematical discourse,pedagogical discourse,mathematics teaching
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Education and Lifelong Learning
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Research in Mathematics Education
Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 20 Oct 2023 01:23
Last Modified: 20 Oct 2023 01:24
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/93379
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