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Title: The influence of high school teachers’ curricular noticing on planning.
This paper reports a study of two high school mathematics teachers’ interactions with curriculum materials while planning lessons. Specifically, we address how their attention interacts with their interpretations and responses to the materials, and how the curriculum elements and format of each set of materials influenced these interactions. Further, we report on how teachers’ noticing informs student opportunities to learn.  more » « less
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1651836
PAR ID:
10134822
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Proceedings of the forty-first annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education
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Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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