Innovating teachers’ practices: potentiate the teaching of mathematics through experimental activities

Maria Cristina Costa; António Domingos

Innovating teachers’ practices: potentiate the teaching of mathematics through experimental activities

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Abstract

This paper aims to potentiate the teaching of mathematics through hands-on experimental activities at the primary school level and by promoting teachers’ professional development, using innovative practices. A Teacher Design Research cycle involving a group of primary school teachers during one school year was performed. This cycle consists in teacher training sessions, including an introduction to science and mathematics content, hands-on workshops for teachers and also
classroom interventions in order to promote experimental activities and observe teachers in action. A particular case study of teacher Luísa will be presented. It was found that she gained motivation and self-confidence to innovate her practices, showing enhanced ability to perform experimental activities with her students.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Tenth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME10)
Editors	Thérèse Dooley, Ghislaine Gueudet
Place of Publication	Dublin
Publisher	Dublin City University
Pages	2828-2835
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	978-1-873769-73-7
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	10th Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME 10) - Institute of Education, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland Duration: 1 Feb 2017 → 5 Feb 2017

Conference

Conference	10th Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME 10)
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Dublin
Period	1/02/17 → 5/02/17

Keywords

Teacher professional development
training practices
hands-on
teacher knowledge
primary school

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Costa, MC & Domingos, A 2017, Innovating teachers’ practices: potentiate the teaching of mathematics through experimental activities. in T Dooley & G Gueudet (eds), Proceedings of the Tenth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME10). Dublin City University, Dublin, pp. 2828-2835, 10th Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME 10), Dublin, Ireland, 1/02/17.

Innovating teachers’ practices: potentiate the teaching of mathematics through experimental activities. / Costa, Maria Cristina; Domingos, António.
Proceedings of the Tenth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME10). ed. / Thérèse Dooley; Ghislaine Gueudet. Dublin: Dublin City University, 2017. p. 2828-2835.

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