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Teachers Editing Textbooks: Transforming Conventional Connections Among Teachers, Textbook Authors, and Mathematicians

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The M-TET (Mathematics Teachers Edit Textbooks) project invites mathematics teachers to collaborate in editing the textbooks they use in their classes as a means of transforming conventional connections among teachers, curriculum developers, and mathematicians into more productive connections. The unique aspects that characterize the work environment offered to teachers include the following: designing a textbook for a broad student population, producing a textbook by making changes to a textbook designed by expert curriculum developers, and consulting with professionals that are not part of the teachers’ usual milieu (textbook authors and mathematicians). This chapter explores the nature of the connections between teachers and textbook authors, and between teachers and mathematicians that participation in the M-TET project made possible, and it discusses what might be gained by offering such a work environment.

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    The M-TET project is part of the Rothschild-Weizmann Program for Excellence in Science Teaching, supported in part by the Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation.

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  1. Department of Science Teaching, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel

    Ruhama Even & Michal Ayalon

  2. Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

    Shai Olsher

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  1. University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

    Mamokgethi Phakeng

  2. Education Department, London South Bank University, London, United Kingdom

    Stephen Lerman

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Even, R., Ayalon, M., Olsher, S. (2016). Teachers Editing Textbooks: Transforming Conventional Connections Among Teachers, Textbook Authors, and Mathematicians. In: Phakeng, M., Lerman, S. (eds) Mathematics Education in a Context of Inequity, Poverty and Language Diversity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38824-3_10

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