Piloting an innovation for developing students’ written mathematical communication competency
Résumé
We use a single key case to understand whether a research-based innovation to improve students’ formal written mathematical communication has implementability and achieves desired outcomes for the target population. We investigate how and in what way students’ communication competency can develop when teachers use an innovative teaching model targeting formal written communication. We found that students’ formal written communications of solutions to problems have progressed in relation to the qualities of efficiency, clarity, arguments and justification, and correct mathematical notation. We also found that the teacher and his students adapted to the teaching model relatively quickly, which can be attributed to the implementability of the innovation. When scaling up, the teacher-researcher contact level needs to be down-scaled, putting new requirements on the contact-, material-, and organizational factors of influence.
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