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Manipulatives and Mathematics: A Thinking Deeply about Mathematics Education Panel

Thinking Deeply about Primary Education

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What Are the Underlying Structures of a Problem?

Teachers need to know the underlying structures of problems, he says. And not just using them for the sake of having them out or thinking it's going to tick a box in a maths observation or something or a booklet. What are our alternatives if something really isn't clicking for a child and all of that should be laid out in a curriculum as far as I'm concerned rather than leaving teachers to just find their feet with it because they inevitably won't.

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