Back to CRME Home PageCollaborative Group for Research in Mathematics Education
Project team: Keith Jones; Jo Lees
Principal collaborator: Ron Taylor (Hampshire Local Authority)
The project was funded by a grant from the UK National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY).
Publications (in date order)
to come
Conference Presentations
to come
Related CRME Projects
Evaluation of the NRICH Online Mathematics Enrichment project
This project was funded by the University of Cambridge, UK (as
represented by the Millennium Mathematics Project).
Developing
Mathematics through Contexts
This project is part-funded by a grant from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation.
Selected bibliography
Boaler, J. (1997), When even the Winners are Losers: evaluating the
experiences of "top set" students, Journal of Curriculum Studies, 29(2),
165-182.
Boaler, J., Wiliam, D. and Brown, M. (2000), Students' experiences of ability
grouping - disaffection, polarisation and the construction of failure,
British Educational Research Journal, 26(5), 631-648.
Diezmann, Carmel M and Watters, James J (2001) The collaboration of
mathematically gifted students on challenging tasks, Journal for the
Education of the Gifted, 25(1):7-31.
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00001646/01/1646.pdf
Diezmann, C. M., Lowrie, T., Bicknell, B., Faragher, R. and Putt, I. (2004)
Catering for exceptional students in mathematics, in Perry, B and Anthony, G and
Diezmann, C, (Eds). Research in mathematics education in Australasia
2000-2003, pages 175-195. Post Pressed.
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00001855/01/1855.pdf
Freeman, Joan (1998), Educating the Very Able: current international
research. London: Stationery Office.
http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/ofsted/veryable/able.htm
Johnson , Dana T. (2000), Teaching Mathematics to Gifted Students in a
Mixed-Ability Classroom. ERIC Digest E594.
http://ericec.org/digests/e594.html
Jones, K. and Simons, H. (1999), Online Mathematics Enrichment: an
evaluation of the NRICH project. Southampton: University of Southampton.
100pp. ISBN: 0854327010
Click here for
full report in pdf format.
Jones, K. and Simons, H. (2000), The Student Experience of Online Mathematics
Enrichment. In: T. Nakahara and M. Koyama (Eds), Proceedings of the 24th
Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics
Education, Hiroshima, Japan, Volume 3, pp103-110.
Click here for
full article in pdf format.
Kennard, R. (2001), Teaching Mathematically Able Children. London:
David Fulton. 2nd Ed.
Koshy, V. (2000), Teaching Mathematics to Able Children. London: David
Fulton Publishers.
Ma, X. (2003), Effects of Early Acceleration of Students in Mathematics on
Attitudes Toward Mathematics and Mathematics Anxiety, Teachers College Record,
105 (3), 438-464.
McClure, L. (2001), Supporting the able mathematician, Support for Learning,
16(1), 41-45.
Niederer, K., & Irwin, K. C. (2001). Using problem solving to identify
mathematically gifted students. In M.van den Heuvel-Panhuizen, (Ed.),
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the International Group for
the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Vol 3, pp. 431-438). Utrecht, The
Netherlands: Freudenthal Institute.
Richardson, C. (2001), Assessing Gifted and Talented Children. London:
QCA.
Especially the section on "The assessment of mathematical skills".
Sheffield, L. J. (Ed) (1999), Developing Mathematically Promising Students.
Reston: NCTM.
Straker, A (1983), Mathematics for Gifted Pupils. York: Longman for
Schools Council.
Wieczerkowski, W., Cropley, A. J., & Prado, T. M. , (2000), Nurturing
Talents/Gifts in Mathematics. In K. A. Heller, F. J. Monks, R. J. Sternberg, &
R. F. Subotnik (Eds.), International handbook of giftedness and talent
(pp. 413-425). Oxford: Elsevier. 2nd edition.
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