Joyce Mgombelo
Research agenda
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that any good mathematics education research should be structured around mathematics
activities or tasks.
It is expected that this presentation will open a discussion among mathematics educators on
the nature of teaching practices that might bring about learning as articulated by reformers. As
well, the presentation will open discussion among mathematics educators not only on the nature
of mathematics tasks teacher and students are engaged with but also in what ways teachers attend
to these tasks and how does this translate in their teaching.
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