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Espresso

Filtered research on mathematics education

Every two months we bring you an Espresso – a small but intense draught of filtered research on mathematics education, expressly designed with teachers in mind. Each Espresso considers one particular issue in mathematics education, and how the latest good-quality research can provide helpful guidance or further reading. Perfect with a biscuit; sip gently and combine with a drop of professional judgement for a benevolent stimulant effect.

An infographic showing a graph comparing success and choice of division and multiplication strategies chosen by students

Issue 42: Division and multiplication

12 April 2022

What does research suggest about the teaching and learning of division and multiplication?

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An infographic showing an example of a rich data set classification task

Issue 41: Rich data sets

16 March 2022

What does research suggest about teaching statistics using rich data sets?

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$An infographic displaying Two ways of thinking about division and fractions: Partitioning and Correspondences$

Issue 40: Fraction equivalence

21 December 2021

What does research suggest about the teaching and learning of fraction equivalence?

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An infographic displaying Four ways to approach finding missing values when working with similarity

Issue 39: Teaching and learning similarity

09 November 2021

What does research suggest about the teaching and learning of similarity?

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An infographic displaying Proportion of correct responses by Year 9 students to different types of percentage question (calculator provided)

Issue 38: Teaching and learning of percentage

31 August 2021

What does research suggest about the teaching and learning of percentage?

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An infographic displaying Common forms of bias when people think about probability: Availability bias, Representativeness bias and Equiprobability bias.

Issue 37: Early concepts of probability

28 June 2021

What does research suggest about teaching and learning early concepts of probability?

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Infographic displaying The Overlapping lenses of proportional reasoning

Issue 36: Developing concepts of ratio

06 May 2021

What does research suggest about developing concepts of ratio?

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Infographic displaying The number line: a flexible and useful mode. Showing various examples of number lines

Issue 35: The number line

02 March 2021

What does research suggest about the number line?

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Infographic displaying Solutions offered to the question 8 + 4 = ? + 5 by U.S school pupils at different ages

Issue 34: The equal sign

01 December 2020

What does research suggest about teaching and learning the equal sign?

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Infographic displaying the Cultural frames that may obscure racism in education. Minimization of racism frame, naturalization frame, cultural racism frame and abstract liberalism frame.

Issue 33: Racial equity in maths education

29 October 2020

What does the research suggest about racial equity issues in mathematics education?

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Infographic displaying approximate translations of words used to tell the time in Great Britain, Egypt, Romania, Norway, Hong Kong and Italy

Issue 32: Developing concepts of time

04 August 2020

What does research suggest about developing concepts of time?

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Infographic displaying Types of combination problems

Issue 31: Introduction to combinations

01 July 2020

What does research suggest around the introduction of combinatorics (often called combinations)?

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