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Review of the Droichead teacher induction pilot programme (Report)
(ESRI [The Economic and Social Research Institute], 2016)
Problem posing and primary pre-service teachers: An initial study
(St. Patrick’s College, Dublin, 2011)
Problem solving is an important component of primary mathematics. Central to the activity of problem solving is the task of problem posing. This study examines the skills and predispositions of pre-service teachers when ...
Mathematics teaching matters: making complex mathematical ideas accessible to primary level children
(St. Patrick’s College, Dublin, 2011)
Reform of mathematics curricula has led to the expansion of topics such as algebra, data and probability being taught to primary level children. This new subject matter can be challenging for primary teachers to teach as ...
Geometric growing patterns: what’s the rule?
(AAMT [Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers], 2015)
We explore several examples of the way in which to use geometrical growing patterns. Examples are situated within interesting contexts to elicit algebraic generalisations by working through a five-phase analysis process.
Practice as learning
(Geraldine Cotter, 2016)
'If you're doubting yourself then, what's the fun in that?' an exploration of why prospective secondary mathematics teachers perceive statistics as difficult
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
Most research into prospective secondary mathematics teachers’ attitudes towards statistics indicates generally positive attitudes but a perception that statistics is difficult to learn. These perceptions of statistics as ...
Intercultural education, picturebooks and refugees: approaches for language teachers
(CLELEjournal, 2014)
Picturebooks can be used as a means of teaching a range of intercultural issues as well as enriching learners’ linguistic and literacy skills. As windows and mirrors, picturebooks can be a powerful vehicle in the classroom ...
Children as data detectives
(INTO [Irish National Teachers Organisation], 2012)
Transforming the teaching of data
Is your experience of teaching data less
than exciting? Do you think there is more
to teaching data than making bar charts of
children’s favourite colours? And pictograms
of modes of ...
Untangling the knots – [k]not easy: professional identity in the early childhood care and education sector
(2015)
Those working in the Early Childhood Care and Education sector have struggled for professional recognition and status. While professional identity, or lack of it, is associated with a multiplicity of factors, this paper ...
A path analysis of the relationship among critical motivational variables and achievement in reform-oriented mathematics curriculum
(Routledge, 2013)
This study investigated the relationship among critical motivational variables and mathematics achievement as middle grades students engaged in a reform-oriented curriculum, Mathematics in Context. We tested 327 students ...