Mathematical investigations in the classroom: A collaborative project

• Author(s): Oliveira, Hélia ; Segurado, Irene ; Ponte, João Pedro da ; Cunha, Helena
• Date: 1997
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/4087
• Origin: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
• Subject(s): Teacher researcher; Mathematics; Curriculum; Mathematical investigations; Collaboration
• Document Type: Part of book or chapter of book
• Language: English

Description

This paper presents some work developed through a collaborative project involving mathematics teachers and teacher educators, aimed at the development of classroom tasks involving students in mathematical investigations and the study of related teaching styles. We give a general overview of the project and present one task dealing with the concepts of powers and exponents. Then, we describe how it was used in the classroom (grade levels 5-7), and present our experience about the role and the activity of the teacher in the process of organizing, conducting and reflecting about this kind of activity.