Plenary Panel
PME History: Cognitive Theories and School Practices
Kath Hart (Coord.), Michele Artigue and Marj Horne

DISCUSSION POINTS

The three members of the panel are mathematics education researchers with many years of experience in the field and of working with teachers. We had three questions suggested to us by the committee:

1. What evidence has Mathematics Education Research offered teachers to help improve the teaching and learning of the subject?

2. The UN millennium plan requires plenary primary education for all.
What advice can Mathematics Education Research offer to a new practitioner to prevent the same mistakes in teaching mathematics that have been made over the last thirty years?

3. A twenty year old trainee teacher says today 'I want to be a good Mathematics teacher'. What advice can you give her [him] as to philosophy, methods, book, etc?.

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