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Volume 49, Issue 6

November 2017

Mathematical Tasks and the Student

Issue Editors:

David Clarke,
Alf Coles,
Heather L. Johnson

12 articles in this issue

Mathematical tasks and the student: navigating “tensions of intentions” between designers, teachers, and students
Heather Lynn Johnson
Alf Coles
David Clarke
Survey Paper Open access 05 October 2017 Pages: 813 - 822
Who’s wrong? Tasks fostering understanding of mathematical relationships in word problems in elementary students
Annie Savard
Elena Polotskaia
Original Article 30 May 2017 Pages: 823 - 833
Using a computer-based learning task to promote work on mathematical relationships in the context of word problems in early grades
Viktor Freiman
Elena Polotskaia
Annie Savard
Original Article 24 August 2017 Pages: 835 - 849
Ferris wheels and filling bottles: a case of a student’s transfer of covariational reasoning across tasks with different backgrounds and features
Heather Lynn Johnson
Evan McClintock
Peter Hornbein
Original Article 20 May 2017 Pages: 851 - 864
The function concept at the transition to upper secondary school level: tasks for a situation of change
Mareike Best
Angelika Bikner-Ahsbahs
Original Article 17 August 2017 Pages: 865 - 880
Resisting the desire for the unambiguous: productive gaps in researcher, teacher and student interpretations of a number story task
Mellony Graven
Alf Coles
Original Article 16 May 2017 Pages: 881 - 893
Investigating task design, classroom culture and mathematics learning: an enactivist approach
Maria-Dolores Lozano
Original Article 12 September 2017 Pages: 895 - 907
A methodology for instructional design in mathematics—with the generic and epistemic student at the centre
Heidi Strømskag
Original Article 05 September 2017 Pages: 909 - 921
Hybrid task design: connecting learning opportunities related to critical thinking and statistical thinking
Sebastian Kuntze
Einav Aizikovitsh-Udi
David Clarke
Original Article 05 July 2017 Pages: 923 - 935
Principles for designing mathematical tasks that enhance imitative and creative reasoning
Johan Lithner
Original Article Open access 18 May 2017 Pages: 937 - 949
Structured affordances in the use of open-ended tasks to facilitate collaborative problem solving
Man Ching Esther Chan
David Clarke
Original Article 25 July 2017 Pages: 951 - 963
Commentary on mathematical tasks and the student: coherence and connectedness of mathematics, cycles of task design, and context of implementation
Eva Thanheiser
Commentary Paper 16 September 2017 Pages: 965 - 969