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This article describes a research on students’ views of what constitutes good mathematics teaching. A questionnaire with open ended questions was given to 106 students in six different mathematics classes, with five different teachers, in four different upper secondary schools in Iceland. The questi...
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ftopinvisindi:oai:opinvisindi.is:20.500.11815/4894 2024-06-02T08:09:17+00:00 Good Mathematics Teaching and Classroom Norms : – Views of Secondary School Students – Bjarnadóttir, Kristín Dooley, Therese Corcoran, Dolores Ryan, Miriam Education 2011 11 245206 71-81 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/4894 en eng St Patricks College Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Research in Mathematics Education, MEI 4; () Bjarnadóttir , K 2011 , Good Mathematics Teaching and Classroom Norms : – Views of Secondary School Students – . in T Dooley , D Corcoran & M Ryan (eds) , Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Research in Mathematics Education, MEI 4 : 22nd and 23rd September 2011. St Patricks College, Dublin . St Patricks College , Dublin, Ireland , pp. 71-81 . 221818033 44c03bde-3362-4d5f-a8c8-07fd50a3c7e3 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/4894 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Mathematics (all) /dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/researchoutputtypes/contributiontobookanthology/chapter 2011 ftopinvisindi https://doi.org/20.500.11815/4894 2024-05-06T02:20:07Z This article describes a research on students’ views of what constitutes good mathematics teaching. A questionnaire with open ended questions was given to 106 students in six different mathematics classes, with five different teachers, in four different upper secondary schools in Iceland. The questions were designed to get at students concerns and opinions of what constitutes good mathematics teaching and where the strengths of their particular teacher lie. The students of all the teachers considered ‘clear explanations of the content’ as the teachers’ main advantages as well as thorough mathematical knowledge and incisive teaching, while they also appreciated highly personal qualities such as patience, cheerfulness, and care for their students’ progress. Remarks on the characteristics of good teaching witnessed different societal norms in the groups as well as different beliefs about students’ own roles, the roles of others, teachers included, and the general nature of mathematical activity in school. Peer reviewed Book Part Iceland Opin vísindi (Iceland) Patience ENVELOPE(-68.933,-68.933,-67.750,-67.750) |
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This article describes a research on students’ views of what constitutes good mathematics teaching. A questionnaire with open ended questions was given to 106 students in six different mathematics classes, with five different teachers, in four different upper secondary schools in Iceland. The questions were designed to get at students concerns and opinions of what constitutes good mathematics teaching and where the strengths of their particular teacher lie. The students of all the teachers considered ‘clear explanations of the content’ as the teachers’ main advantages as well as thorough mathematical knowledge and incisive teaching, while they also appreciated highly personal qualities such as patience, cheerfulness, and care for their students’ progress. Remarks on the characteristics of good teaching witnessed different societal norms in the groups as well as different beliefs about students’ own roles, the roles of others, teachers included, and the general nature of mathematical activity in school. Peer reviewed |
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Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Research in Mathematics Education, MEI 4; () Bjarnadóttir , K 2011 , Good Mathematics Teaching and Classroom Norms : – Views of Secondary School Students – . in T Dooley , D Corcoran & M Ryan (eds) , Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Research in Mathematics Education, MEI 4 : 22nd and 23rd September 2011. St Patricks College, Dublin . St Patricks College , Dublin, Ireland , pp. 71-81 . 221818033 44c03bde-3362-4d5f-a8c8-07fd50a3c7e3 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/4894 |
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