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Adapting curriculum materials in secondary school mathematics: A case study of a Singapore teacher's lesson design
Citation
Chin, S. L., Choy, B. H., & Leong, Y. H. (2021). Adapting curriculum materials in secondary school mathematics: A case study of a Singapore teacher's lesson design. In Y. H. Leong, B. Kaur, B. H. Choy, J. B. W. Yeo, & S. L. Chin (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (pp. 147-154). The Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia.
Abstract
When mathematics teachers plan lessons, they interact with curriculum materials in various ways. In this paper, we draw on Brown’s (2009) Design Capacity for Enactment framework to explore the practice of adapting curriculum materials in the case of a Singapore secondary mathematics teacher. Problems from the textbook used and the worksheets she crafted were compared to determine how she adapted the content. Video-recordings of the lessons and post-lesson interviews were used to clarify how her personal teacher resources contributed to her design decisions. The findings suggest that her seemingly casual use of problems from the textbook are in fact unique variations of adapting curriculum materials.
Date Issued
2021
ISBN
9781920846329