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Collaboration between mathematicians and mathematic
education researcher
María Leonor Varasmlvaras@dim.uchile.clUNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
BIRS, January 2014
Outline The importance of collaboration in math
education and conditions for succes
Who has to be in the team?
Some examples
The need of collaboration(was in many previous presentation)
Complexity of the task of teaching math in real classrooms: Variety of aspects that interact Even the mathematical aspects of school
mathematics are not evident for mathematicians The need to understand this complexity and
to act effectively in this context Mathematicians have no direct participation
in the achievement of the goals of their effort: the development of the pupils.
Conditions for successful colaboration Respect Empathy and awareness of the real
conditions (authority factors, social status of the profession, pressure, ways of hide uncomfortable position)
Genuine interest in what the other bring To share interest and goals in a common
(precise) problem (teachers want (need) their students development)
Who has te be in the team? Teachers, math education researcher, ……,
sociologist, anthropologist, psychologist, experts in psychometry, neuroscientist,….
On the development of pupils’ and teachers’ mathematical understanding and performance when dealing with open-ended problems
Academy of Finland project #135556 CONICYT Chile project Aka-09
Erkki Pehkonen Leonor VarasUniversity of Helsinki Universidad de Chile
Purpose
To develop a model for improving the level of understanding and performance of pupils and teachers when using open-ended problems in elementary school mathematics, with the active participation of teachers, and experimentation in real classrooms in Chile and Finland.
Implementation Three-year follow-up study in elementary school from grade 3
to grade 5 in Finland and Chile. In each country there are two groups: control and
experimental. Once a month, the teachers plan together with the
researchers an open ended problem solving lesson. These lessons are videotaped. At the beginning of the project and at the end, the students
are assessed, they answer a questionnaire and they draw their math class.
The teachers answer a questionnaire. At the beginning of the experiment, a large sample of
teachers of third grade classes (about 100 in each country) was charted with questionnaires.
Participating classes in Santiago 14 classes in the experimental group from 9
different schools: two classes in 5 public schools of the same county (Quinta Normal) each, 2 charter schools of SIP net, 2 regular charter schools.
The control group is constituted by 14 classes of the same characteristics as above.
IMPACT OF DIFFERENT WAYS TO INTRODUCE A PROBLEM SOLVING TASK ON PUPILS PERFORMANCE
The 12th International Congress on Mathematical Education
July, 8~15, 2012, COEX, Seoul, Korea
Below there are two arithmagons, you should find the missing numbers in the corners.
Arithmagons can be solved in many ways. How did you solve it? Did you find a method for solving any arithmagons, when the numbers on the sides are given and two of those are the same?
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8
8
2
5
5
The task for the pupils:
The new instrument to assess a PCK component: teacher´s knowledge about how students learn mathematics
It is very difficult to develope good items to measure this knowledge and
Impossible whithout the participation of experienced teachers and math educators.
Research project on School EffectivenessLeaded by a sociologist and a economist working at CIAE in the area of Educational PoliciesMathematicians were invited to analyse quality of math instruction.We are applying the MQI protocol of H. Hill
Research strand 1: Explaining school effectiveness improvement, with an emphasis on mathematics. Specific objectives1. Identify the factors associated with the improvement of primary school effectiveness, exploring the presence of heterogeneous effects according to the relevant characteristics of the schools and their pupils. 2. Compare the trajectories of educational improvement in the Chilean school system with international evidence.3. To study, in schools which have systematically improved their effectiveness, the contribution to students’ academic achievements of teacher-pupil interaction in general terms, (emotional support, classroom management and pedagogic support) and specifically the quality of math teaching, (pedagogic knowledge of the discipline, quality of math teaching and beliefs about mathematics and its instruction).
Research strand 2: Exploring the sustainability of school improvement
Specific objectives 4. To analyze the level of stability/volatility of the
processes to improve effectiveness, estimated from schools over the last decade, exploring factors associated with the sustainability of school improvement.
5. Understand in depth the evolution in the long term, (approximately a decade) of schools in poor environments previously considered to be highly effective, linking internal and external processes that have had an impact on the school, with their actual status in terms of educational performance