Implementing a new mathematics curriculum: Mathematics teachers’ beliefs and practices

The Relationship Between High-School Mathematics Teachers' Beliefs and Their Practices in Regards to Intellectual Quality

Mathematics Teachers’ Approaches to “Listening” in Mathematics Classes: A phenomenographic approach

The ways that mathematics teachers listen to students’ explanation, influence their understanding of students and their teaching activities. If teachers be informed about different ways of “listening” to students’ ideas and conceptions concerning mathematics, they might be able to use listening as an effective teaching method to enhance students’ mathematical learning. The related literature in...

The Relationship between Teacher Related Factors and Mathematics Teachers’ Educational Beliefs about Mathematics

This study investigates the extent to which: (a) mathematics teachers' educational beliefs about mathematics change upon participation in professional development, and (b) teachers' educational background and teaching experience in mathematics contribute to their educational beliefs and to the change in these beliefs. Results showed that teachers significantly improved their educational beliefs...

Influencing Teachers’ Beliefs About Teaching Mathematics for Numeracy to Students with Mathematics Learning Difficulties

This paper reports on the beliefs of a group of K-8 mathematics teachers about appropriate goals and methods of mathematics teaching for students with mathematics learning difficulties and for students generally. The teachers were involved in a brief professional learning program that aimed to provide them with effective strategies for mathematics teaching for numeracy, and to influence their r...

Curriculum Materials in Mathematics Education Reform: A Framework for Examining Teachers’ Curriculum Development

This paper presents a model of teachers’ construction of mathematics curriculum in the classroom or their curriculum development activities. The model emerged through a qualitative study of two experienced, elementary teachers during their first year of using a commercially published, reform-oriented textbook that had been adopted by their district (Remillard 1996). The aim of the study was to ...