Venkat, Hamsa ORCID: 0000-0002-6453-1623
(2024)
The Mental Starters Assessment Project: Ambitious
Teaching in the South African Context.
In: 14th International Congress on Mathematical Education, July 11-18 2021, Shanghai.
Abstract
In this paper, I detail the ways in which a South African initiative
focused on mental mathematics in the early grades (the Mental Starters Assessment Project — MSAP) can be considered as an intervention aligned with the idea of ambitious instructional practice. In building this argument, I take note of the fact that the materials associated with the MSAP initiative are relatively prescriptive in their format, a feature that has sometimes been argued to work against the goals of ambitious instructional practice. The reasons for considering the MSAP an ambitious instructional practice initiative is linked in the paper with
the attention given in the materials to working across the strands of mathematical proficiency, with local conditions and cultures driving the relatively prescriptive format of materials provision.
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Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Event Type: | Conference |
Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Mental mathematics; Ambitious teaching; South Africa |
Subjects: | Social Sciences > Education |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | UNSPECIFIED |
Published in: | Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on Mathematics Education. 2. ICME. |
Publisher: | ICME |
Official URL: | https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/978981... |
Copyright Information: | Authors |
ID Code: | 30201 |
Deposited On: | 13 Aug 2024 13:25 by Hamsa Venkatakrishnan . Last Modified 13 Aug 2024 13:25 |
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