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Language and literacy in mathematics: stepping stones or stumbling blocks in accelerating junior-secondary students

Year: 2014

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: The authors have collaborated in the development and initial evaluation of a curriculum for mathematics acceleration. This paper reports upon the difficulties encountered with documenting student understanding using pen-and-paper assessment tasks. This leads to a discussion of the impact of students’ language and literacy on mathematical performance and the consequences for motivation and engagement as a result of simplifying the language in the tests, and extending student work to algebraic representations. In turn, implications are drawn for revisions to assessment used within the project and the language and literacy focus included within student learning experiences.

Source: QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology)

Authors: Edlyn Grant, David Nutchey, Tom Cooper, Lyn D. English

Language: English

Topic: Mathematics Education and Pedagogy

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

Funder: Australian Research Council

Award: Accelerating the mathematics learning of low socio-economic status junior secondary students

OpenAlex ID: W197851739