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of Teaching Mathematics
Judith Flowers
Roger Verhey
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Low level
– Procedures without connections
• Algorithmic and use of procedure is specifically called for
• Have no connection to the concepts or meaning that
underlie the procedure being used
– Memorization
• Reproducing previously learned facts
• Committing facts, rules, formulae to memory
TASKS
TASKS TASKS
as they
appear in as set up by as
curricular/ the teachers implemented
instructional by students
materials Student
Learning
Read
The Case of Ron Castleman in Implementing
Standards-based Mathematics Instruction,
chapter 5, pp. 47-56.
Focus Question
How did Ron Castleman’s enactment of the
task effect students’ opportunities for
learning?