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Effective Teachers of Numeracy in Primary Schools: Teachers' Beliefs, Practices and Pupils' Learning.
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The article was published on 1997-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 36 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Math wars & Connected Mathematics.read more
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“My favourite subject is maths. For some reason no-one really agrees with me”: student perspectives of mathematics teaching and learning in the upper primary classroom
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the students' perspectives of mathematics teaching and learning to discover pedagogies that engage the students and found that students in the middle years of primary school are critically aware of pedagogys that lead to engagement in mathematics, and existing standards and frameworks should be used as a starting point for quality teaching of mathematics.
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Exploring the Cognitive Dimension of Teaching Mathematics through Scheme-oriented Approach to Education
TL;DR: In this article, the main way to improve the teaching of mathematics lies in changing teacher's educational styles to develop pupils' creativity and intellectual autonomy, which means using scheme-oriented education based on the theory of generic models.
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Pockets of Excellence: Teacher Beliefs and Behaviors That Lead to High Student Achievement at Low Achieving Schools:
TL;DR: This article examined the beliefs and behaviors of three teachers who worked at former Reading First Schools and whose student population consistently scored 10% above state average for reading test scores, and found that the teachers' beliefs and behaviours were similar to those of other teachers.
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Experienced Primary School Teachers' Thoughts on Effective Teachers of Literacy and Numeracy.
TL;DR: The characteristics of effective literacy and numeracy primary school teachers that emerged from this study would serve as a frame of reference for education policy-makers and curriculum developers in determining the directions and plan of actions towards enhancing effective teaching and learning of literacy and numerical education in primary schools in Malaysia.
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An examination of the place of school mathematics in preparing pupils for the workplace in Antigua and Barbuda
TL;DR: The authors examined the preparation made to enable mathematics teachers to appropriately prepare school leavers entering directly into the workforce upon graduation to handle the different branches of mathematics in Antigua and Barbuda.
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Basics of qualitative research : grounded theory procedures and techniques
Anselm L. Strauss,Juliet Corbin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the uses of literature and open coding techniques for enhancing theoretical sensitivity of theoretical studies, and give guidelines for judging a grounded theory study.
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Qualitative Data Analysis
TL;DR: In the field of qualitative data analysis, qualitative data is extremely varied in nature. It includes virtually any information that can be captured that is not numerical in nature as mentioned in this paper, which is a generalization of direct observation.
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Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques
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In Pursuit of the Expert Pedagogue
TL;DR: This paper found that the presence of opening homework reviews in mathematics classes is associated with higher achievement, and this idea was further studied further by creating levels of review and using these levels as variables in experiments.
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The relationship of teachers’ conceptions of mathematics and mathematics teaching to instructional practice
TL;DR: This paper investigated the conceptions of mathematics and mathematics teaching held by three junior high school teachers and found that teachers' beliefs, views, and preferences about mathematics and its teaching played a significant, albeit subtle, role in shaping their instructional behavior.