This paper reports the design of an introductory probability module intended for implementation at scale within the English educational system. It forms part of the epiSTEMe programme of redesign research aimed at improving the teaching and learning of mathematics and science at early-secondary level. The approach taken by the module is informed by the research literatures on effective teaching...

This special issue discusses various pedagogical innovations and myriad of significant findings. This commentary is not a synthesis of these contributions, but a summary of my own reflections on selected aspects of the nine papers comprising the special issue. Four themes subsume these reflections: (1) Gestural Communication (Alibali, Nathan, Church, Wolfgram, Kim and Knuth 2013); (2) Developme...

Upon completion of a graduate level course at the Open University of Israel, one instructor received very high student ratings while the other received very low ratings. We utilized this exceptional situation to perform ad hoc analyses of their course forums. The objective of this study was to map the dialogic behavior that occurred and to create suggestions for best practice and for worst prac...

This article presents the genesis and main elements that compose cycle of dialogic learning. The development concept self-controlled sustainable learning is based on a personal encounter between two teachers entirely different subjects: Mathematics German. Two examples show how uncomplicated teaching mathematics in classroom can be, once teacher has gained courage to trust capabilities children...