Teaching and learning mathematics

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Content: Part 1. Looking backwards and looking forwards: -- Looking at a pupil -- Looking at a mathematics lesson -- Looking at educational aims -- Illustrations of teaching and learning mathematics -- Part 2. Historical aspects of mathematics in schools: -- The beginnings of mathematics in education -- Payment by results -- Compulsory education, 1870 -- The start of the 20th century -- After the Second World War -- Part 3. Teaching mathematics to pupils: -- Methods and styles of teaching -- Diversity -- Homework -- Mistakes -- Concentration on individual pupils -- Teaching the slow learners -- Part 4. Methods of learning and methods of teaching: -- Capacity, learning and teaching -- Learning, teaching and theories -- Fixed response methods -- Investigatory methods -- Expository methods -- Part 5. Theoretical aspects of learning mathematics -- The study of psychology of mathematics education -- The psychology of general education -- Four contributors to mathematics education -- Other factors in learning mathematics -- The nature of mathematics -- Part 6. Grouping and organization: -- Methods of grouping pupils -- Using groupings -- Mixed ability or similar ability groups? -- The role of the senior mathematics teacher -- Mathematics room, laboratories and areas -- Part 7. Expectations from teaching and learning: -- Mathematics -- General expectations -- Skills, understanding and insight -- The expectations of groups of people -- Numeracy -- Part 8. The mathematics curriculum for the 1980s specification and aims: -- Four stages of curriculum reform -- Specification -- Aims -- Special areas of the mathematics curriculum -- Part 9. Educational computing: -- Why computing is in the curriculum -- Computing and its area of knowledge -- The organization of computing in schools -- The development of educational computing -- Research using educational computing -- Programming languages -- The different roles of educational computing -- Support for teachers -- Part 10. Assessment and evaluation: -- Categories of evaluation -- Assessment tests.