Original Research

Re‐sourcing mathematics teaching through professional development

Helena Miranda, Jill Adler
Pythagoras | Issue 72 | a17 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/pythagoras.v0i72.17 | © 2010 Helena Miranda, Jill Adler | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 08 July 2010 | Published: 28 September 2010

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Helena Miranda, Marang Centre for Mathematics and Science Education, School of Education, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Jill Adler, Marang Centre for Mathematics and Science Education, School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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Abstract

In any education system, curriculum alone cannot fulfill reform demands imposed onto teachers to help learners make meaning of subject contents they learn. This paper revisits the notion of resources as explored in a mathematics teacher professional development project that focused on algebra learning. As a way to promote the use of manipulatives in teaching and learning algebra, the project introduced algebra tiles to participating teachers and investigated how the tiles facilitated the enaction of algebraic meanings. The participating teachers learned different ways of helping learners interpret and solve algebraic problems, with the use of algebraic tiles.

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professional development; manipulatives

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