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Adapting Textbook Problems to Create a More Reality-Based Mathematics Education

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Historically mathematics textbooks have been a key resource for mathematics teachers. However, textbooks and other curricular materials must be aligned purposefully with the curriculum goals but this is not always the case when we compare traditional mathematics textbooks with the objectives of reality based mathematics education.

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  1. Institut für Didaktik der Mathematik, Universität Linz, Linz, Austria

    Jürgen Maaß

  2. EPISTEM, National Centre for STEM Education, School of Education, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Niamh O’Meara

  3. School of Education, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Patrick Johnson

  4. EPISTEM, National Centre for STEM Education, School of Education, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    John O’Donoghue

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Maaß, J., O’Meara, N., Johnson, P., O’Donoghue, J. (2018). Adapting Textbook Problems to Create a More Reality-Based Mathematics Education. In: Mathematical Modelling for Teachers. Springer Texts in Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00431-6_3

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