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This paper reports on initial data from teachers at an Australian Year 9-12 secondary school which is attempting to implement a project-based learning model across the entire curriculum. The eight teachers had diverse prior teaching experiences, including work in primary schools, special education, Year 7-10 secondary schools, and technical and further education. None had studied mathematics at tertiary level and just one listed maths as a main teaching area. Results of an initial survey indicate that most had reasonable levels of personal mathematics competence, and could identify relevant mathematical concepts among the affordances of a particular scenario, but that they struggled to articulate how they would work with students to pursue any of the relevant mathematics in depth.

Item Type:	Refereed Conference Paper
Research Division:	Education
Research Group:	Curriculum and pedagogy
Research Field:	Mathematics and numeracy curriculum and pedagogy
Objective Division:	Education and Training
Objective Group:	Teaching and curriculum
Objective Field:	Teacher and instructor development
UTAS Author:	Beswick, K (Professor Kim Beswick)
UTAS Author:	Callingham, R (Associate Professor Rosemary Callingham)
UTAS Author:	Muir, T (Associate Professor Tracey Muir)
ID Code:	78863
Year Published:	2012
Deposited By:	Education
Deposited On:	2012-07-31
Last Modified:	2017-12-09
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