This fascinating and insightful paper offers a concise analysis of some of the problems with
our current National Curriculum and helps explain why so many other nations are outpacing …

This case study discusses an activity that makes up one of five lessons in an ongoing
classroom teaching experiment. The goal of the teaching experiment is (a) to gain insight …

This research aims at studying on how students develop their spatial visualisation abilities.
In this paper, one of five activities in an ongoing classroom activity is discussed. This paper …

The traditions of mathematics education in Hungary date back over two centuries. This
chapter attempts to give an analysis of the essential features of mathematics education in …

In the final stages of completing this thesis, I began to realize that the four-year period of
working on the MENS research project was very quickly coming to an end. That realization …

The dominance of Asian communities in international league tables such as those produced
by The Program for International Student Assessment, which monitors competence in …

Students often have a wrong understanding on multiplication of fractions in which they
consider multiplication of numbers, the value definitely will always be higher. It underlies the …

In this chapter, I will review studies reporting on the integration of technology into education
and specifically into mathematics teaching and learning. I will pay particular attention to …

This study is based on the work of the METE (Mathematics Education Traditions of Europe
Project) team. Following a short introduction of the project, its theoretical background …

This study presents the analysis of four sequences of videotaped lessons on polygons in
lower secondary schools (grades 7 and 8) taught by four different teachers in four different …