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Stacey, Kaye; Vincent, Jill – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2009
Understanding that mathematics is founded on reasoning and is not just a collection of rules to apply is an important message to convey to students. Here we examined the reasoning presented in seven topics in nine Australian eighth-grade textbooks. Focusing on explanatory text that introduced new mathematical rules or relationships, we classified…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Classification, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 8