Stuber, S., Veldhuis, M., & Keijzer, R. (2021). Mathematics in the news and prospective teachers’ professional mathematical literacy. The Australian Mathematics Education Journal, 3(3), 4-7.
In this article, the authors describe how they helped their prospective teachers to understand numeracy by writing open-ended mathematical tasks based on articles from the news. ‘Mathematics in The News’ may be a useful rich context for teachers to consider using in their school mathematics classes, with the potential to prompt students’ mathematical thinking.
Van der Zee, S., Bredeweg, B., Embrechts, A., Hotze, A., Jonker, V., Keijzer, R., Kruiskamp, M., Nieveen, N., Muller – van der Molen, A., Pennink, D., Pijls, M., & Poortman, C. (2023). STEM-netwerk: leren van een landelijk lerend netwerk. Tijdschrift voor Lerarenopleiders, 44(2), 21-36.
Vollmuller, B., Veldhuis, M., Otten, M., Stuber, S., Anantharajan, M., & Keijzer, R. (2023). Developing functional thinking from teacher education to primary school: students walk along the number line. Presented at: CERME13 in Budapest, Hungary.
Understanding of, and reasoning about, descriptions of relations between quantities is an important aspect of mathematical learning and essential for anyone to function in society. Performing, guiding, and designing activities to support functional thinking is currently not part of the curriculum neither in primary education nor teacher education in the Netherlands. Activities for both primary education and teacher education are developed as part of the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership FunThink. This poster shows how two preservice teachers translate activities on functional thinking from teacher education to practice. We concluded that these preservice teachers translate activities on functional thinking by mimicking most of the elements of the teacher education activity. The preservice teachers also make slight adaptations to the activity based on their own beliefs and interpretation of the activity and the perceived ability of their students.
Keijzer, R. (2023). Conceptueel kijken naar breuken. Volgens Bartjens – ontwikkeling en onderzoek, 42(5), 51-65.
