Teaching with challenging tasks in the first years of school: what are the obstacles and how can teachers overcome them?

James Russo; Janette Bobis; Ann Downton; Sally Hughes; Sharyn Livy; Melody McCormick; Peter Sullivan

Teaching with challenging tasks in the first years of school: what are the obstacles and how can teachers overcome them?

James Russo, Janette Bobis, Ann Downton, Sally Hughes, Sharyn Livy, Melody McCormick, Peter Sullivan

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Abstract

This article reports on a project which involved introducing challenging tasks in the early years’ classrooms of twenty Victorian primary schools. The obstacles teachers encountered and how they overcame those obstacles are discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	11-18
Number of pages	8
Journal	Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom
Volume	24
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - Mar 2019

Keywords

Mathematics Education
Challenging Tasks
Learning sequences
Productive struggle
Differentiation
Problem Solving
Task-First Approach
Primary mathematics
Teacher beliefs
teacher attitudes
Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Early year's education

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