Tasks in Primary Mathematics Teacher Education

Function, Form and Focus: The Role of Tasks in Elementary Mathematics Teacher Education.- Section A:Tasks as a Tool for Developing Beliefs and Attitudes about Knowledge and Learning.- Using lesson study to develop an appreciation of, and comptetence in task design for students.- Reflecting on the process of task adaptation and extension: the case of computational starters.- The conceptualization and development of a primary mathematics teacher education programme: A task of mathematics teacher educators.- The teaching portfolio: A reflective tool for developing professional language and improving classroom practices.- Section B: Tasks as a Tool for Developing Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching.- Pushing probability and statistics tasks in a new direction.- Logic in Wonderland: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as the context of a course in logic for future elementary school teachers.- Tasks using video clips of children in a content mathematics course for preservice elementary school teachers.- Teacher taks for mathematical insight and reorganziation of what it means to learn mathematics.- Teaching and understanding mathematical modellign through Fermi problems.- A research-based workshop design for volume tasks. The task-based lesson: the central focus of a mathematics content fourse for preservice elementary teachers.- Section C: Tasks as a Tool for Developing Knowledge Through and For Practice.- Using games in initial teacher education: Developing relational understanding.- Using mathematically-rich tasks to deepend the pedagogical content knowledge of primary teachers.- From professional tasks in collaborative environments to educational tasks in mathematics teacher education.- Analysis of classroom-based processes as as key task in teacher training in early algebra.- Outdoor mathematical experiences: Constructivism, connections, and health.- From teahcer education to teacher practice: A gap affecting the implementation of tasks.-Concluding comments.