Scenario: Finding three fractions that adds up to one whole Country: Norway Grade (student age): Grade 7 (age 12-13) Contributed by: Ove Gunnar Drageset, University of Tromsoe, Norway Context The teacher has five years teaching experience. The lesson is halfway through grade seven. The competence goals in the Norwegian curriculum are not formulated for each […]

Scenario: Franca solving a story problem with the students. Country: Italy Grade (student age): Year 4 (age 9-10) Contributed by: Marco Bardelli, University of Padova, Italy Context – public primary school, national curriculum The Italian National Curriculum emphasizes the development of students’ number sense through realistic mathematical problems where the estimate of numbers can be […]

Scenario: Jim teaching construction of bar charts from tally charts Country: UK Grade (student age): Year 6 (age 9-11) Contributed by: Fay Turner, University of Cambridge, UK Context – national, curricular, professional, other Jim was a student teacher in the final term of a postgraduate teacher education course. During his final school placement, he was […]