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Lovemore, Tarryn; Robertson, Sally-Ann; Graven, Mellony – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2022
This paper describes the authors' journey in designing a linear representation that aligns mathematics and music to support fractional reasoning. The three authors, guided by the theoretical framing of realistic mathematics education, engaged in a task design process over a 12-month period to develop integrated resources. Data were collected in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Logic, Mathematical Concepts, Music Activities
Vale, Pamela; Graven, Mellony – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2022
This paper emerges from a broader study that investigated the strategies employed by teachers to continue mathematics teaching and learning during South Africa's COVID-19 lockdowns and through subsequent phased and partial re-opening of schools. In this paper, we focus on teacher views of the role of parents in these efforts gathered through two…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Parent Role, Mathematics Instruction, COVID-19
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Vale, Pamela; Graven, Mellony – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to present severe challenges to the education sector more than 2 years after the first case was detected. We explore the strategies South African teachers used to support continued mathematics learning at home during the COVID-19 pandemic across different stages of the response to it and across different contexts.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Strategies, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Stott, Debbie; Baart, Noluntu; Graven, Mellony – Africa Education Review, 2019
A key intervention of the South African Numeracy Chair Project (SANCP) since 2011 has been the introduction of mathematics (or maths) clubs, which occur in the out-of-school time space. In 2016 the maths club concept was developed into a 15-week Pushing for Progression (PfP) teacher development programme which supports primary school mathematics…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Numeracy, Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness