Brief Description
Draw on mathematics education literature to inform the reader what the research has to say about the teaching and learning of a particular mathematical concept within algebraic thinking and function (teacher journal article and associated poster).
You are to draw on reading of mathematics education literature to:
A: Write a teacher journal article conveying what the mathematics education literature tells us about teaching and/or learning on one key ‘issue’ within algebraic thinking and function in Years.
B: Use your teacher journal article to create a ‘mathematics teacher staffroom` poster to convey key messages to colleagues intended to inform and influence future practice, and encourage reading of your article.
Journal article
In an article intended for a mathematics teacher audience, you will demonstrate knowledge of mathematics teaching and learning as you inform the reader, raising awareness of what is known, and provide advice for teachers as to productive approaches to teaching and/or learning supporting deep understanding.
You might focus on key ideas, connections, known difficulties and partial or misconceptions related to your selected key issue. Be guided by the literature you read as to how to focus your article. Your essay is to be presented in the form of a journal article for peers and `supported` by a poster which conveys some key aspects from your article. Possible focus areas include: equality, variable, functions, the notion of generality, using multiple representations to develop.
Just and Cribbs (2020, p. 100) argue that "concrete and multiperspective representations of mathematical concepts are key to understanding". Furthermore, “learning environments should give students the opportunity to get to know different representations of a mathematical object in order for them to develop an appropriate multifaceted concept image” (Dreher & Kuntze 2015, p. 92). Hence, whether your focus is more aligned with algebraic thinking or functional thinking, you should be actively seeking mathematics education literature that discusses concrete and/or multiple representations (algebraic/symbolic, graphical, numerical, visual, ...).
Poster
Drawing on your journal article, create a digital poster (A3 landscape) to communicate key ideas to teachers of mathematics. Your poster should present 2-4 critical ideas from your Journal Article, one diagnostic assessment item from the mathematics education literature to support diagnosing a particular understanding and onelearning task to develop understanding in the selected focus area within algebraic thinking and function in Years 7-10.
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