Teachers learning mathematics

Funding Year:2006

Year: 1 year

Organisation: University of Auckland

Principal Investigators

Bill Barton and Judy Paterson,

Research team

Barbara Kensington-Miller, HannahBartholomew, Anne Blundell, Peter Radonich, Jason Florence, Anna Dumnov, Margaret de Boer, Linda Crisford, Yoko Raike, Anne Watson, and Deborah Ball

Partnerships

The University of Auckland, with eight secondary teachers from eight different schools in the Auckland region will work as part of a wider project in collaboration with teams lead by Deborah Ball, The University of Michigan; and Anne Watson, Oxford University

Project Aims and Objectives

The research questions were;

• What developments will a teacher be able to make in their own mathematical knowledge while teaching?
• What do these teachers think about its worthwhileness and practicality as ongoing professional development?
• What do these teachers have to say about the importance

A subaim of the project was to further induct the teacher-researchers into research practice. The project sought to understand how teachers can engage in the learning of mathematics to enhance their teaching as part of their professional lives. It gave a group of teachers the opportunity to undertake such learning in a supported fashion, and to refl ect on and investigate for themselves its effect.

Research Outputs

Barton, B., & Paterson, J. (2009). Teachers learning mathematics: Professional development research. Wellington: Teaching and Learning Research Initiative