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Working on your own mathematics
This unit focuses on your initial encounters with research. It invites you...
This unit focuses on your initial encounters with research. It invites you to think about how perceptions of mathematics have influenced you in your prior learning, your teaching and the attitudes of learners.
After studying this unit you should:
- reflect in depth on aspects of mathematics learning, whether you are directly concerned with mathematics teaching or simply interested in issues of mathematics education;
- examine established views about existing practice in a critical way and engage with research evidence on mathematics and learning.
- Duration: 4 hours
- Published on: Friday 1st April 2011
- Level: Masters
- Posted under: Mathematics Education
Working on your own mathematics
Introduction
This unit focuses on your initial encounters with research. It invites you to think about how perceptions of mathematics have influenced you in your prior learning, your teaching and the attitudes of learners.
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