'Task Design in Mathematics Education

Speaker:

Ahu Cannogulari, NTNU

Abstract: 

The overall aim of my PhD project is to investigate the principles for and approaches to task design in mathematics education and devise a framework based on this investigation that could be useful to select, adapt, and/or design mathematical tasks. The first phase was a systematic literature review on task design principles that have been addressed in mathematics education research literature. This phase synthesized relevant literature and devised a prototype framework. The second phase was a phenomenological study involving interviews with Norwegian mathematics teachers and lecturers. This phase primarily aimed to refine the initial framework and had a secondary aim of uncovering the challenges participants encountered during their task design practice. For these purposes, the Anthropological Theory of Didactic (ATD) was utilized. Upon refining the framework based on the interviews from the second phase, for the third phase, participants of the second phase will be invited to a follow-up interview, aiming to investigate the applicability of the framework for task design and to conduct further refinements. The refined framework is expected to be a valuable resource for teachers and lecturers. It can also be used in teacher education programs for working with pre-service and in-service teachers.