Improving Primary Mathematics Education, Teaching and Learning

SECTION I: INTERVENTIONS FOR QUALITY AND EQUITY IN PRIMARY EDUCATION.-&nbsp;Chapter 1. Intervening in Contexts of Poverty; Jill Adler .-&nbsp;Chapter 2. Theorising the Primary Mathematics Landscape in Contexts of Poverty;&nbsp;Mellony Graven and Hamsa Venkat .-&nbsp;SECTION II: ASSESSING NUMERACY PROGRESSION IN RESOURCE CONSTRAINED CONTEXTS.-&nbsp;Chapter 3. Using Assessments to Explore Early and Later Performance in Mathematics;&nbsp;Marie Weitz and Hamsa Venkat.-&nbsp;Chapter 4. Researching the Nature of Early Numeracy Progression in After School Clubs;&nbsp;Debbie Stott.-&nbsp;Chapter 5. Adapting Aspects of the Mathematics Recovery programme for use in various South African contexts;&nbsp;Debbie Stott, Zanele Mofu &amp; Siviwe Ndongeni.-&nbsp;SECTION III: UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE ISSUES IN PRIMARY MATHEMATICS TEACHING, LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT.-&nbsp;Chapter 7. Using an Adapted Model of Reciprocal Teaching to Help Children Unpack their Word Sums;&nbsp;Melissa Spira &amp; Sally-Ann Robertson.-&nbsp;Chapter 8. Language in Early Number Learning in South Africa: Linking Transparency and Explicitness;&nbsp;Manono Mdluli.-&nbsp;Chapter 9. Learners Exemplifying for Themselves: Grade 2’s Telling Additive Relations Stories;&nbsp;Nicky Roberts.-&nbsp;Chapter 10. Do the Annual National Assessments in Mathematics Unfairly Assess English Language Competence at the Expense of Mathematical Competence?;&nbsp;Lucy Sibanda.-&nbsp;SECTION IV: SUPPORTING CHANGE IN PRIMARY MATHEMATICS TEACHING.-&nbsp;Chapter 11. Changing Tteaching through a Resources Approach;&nbsp;Hamsa Venkat and Mellony Graven.-&nbsp;Chapter 12. From Theory to Practice: Challenges in Adopting Pedagogies of Mathematizing in South Africa;&nbsp;Thulelah Thakane, Herman Tshesane and Mike Askew.-&nbsp;Chapter 13. Characterizing Responsive Primary Mathematics Teaching in the South African Context;&nbsp;Lawan Abdulhamid.-&nbsp;Chapter 14. Key Aspects of Communities of Practice that Enable Primary Maths Teacher Learning;&nbsp;Peter Pausigere.<div><div><br></div></div>