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M-TET (Mathematics Teachers Edit Textbooks)

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Leading team:

  • Prof. Ruhama Even

Project team:

  • Dr. Michal Ayalon
  • Shai Olsher
  • Gila Osruso-Hagag
  • Prof. Edriss S. Titi

Brief

The M-TET project invited mathematics teachers to collaborate in editing the textbooks they used in their classrooms and to produce, as group products, revised versions of those textbooks.

 

The M-TET project invited mathematics teachers to collaborate in editing the textbooks they used in their classrooms and to produce, as group products, revised versions of those textbooks that would be suitable for a broad and diverse student population. Participation in the M-TET project entailed ongoing online work and monthly face-to-face whole-group meetings. To enable collaborative textbook editing and the production of a joint revised textbook we used, with some modifications, a modified wikibook platform for constructing the project website. The teachers were offered an opportunity to consult with various professionals, including the authors of the textbooks, a research mathematician, and researchers in the field of mathematics education. Our research findings demonstrate the potential of the M-TET work environment to reveal teachers’ wishes and desires regarding textbooks, and possible implications of teachers’ textbook editing with respect to the way mathematics is portrayed and offered in the edited textbooks, as well as the potential of the M-TET work environment to transform the conventional connections between teachers and professionals that are not part of the teachers’ usual milieu: textbook authors and mathematicians into more productive connections

Further reading:

  • Even, R., & Olsher, S. (2014). Teachers as participants in textbook development: The Integrated Mathematics Wiki-book Project. In Y. Li & G. Lappan (Eds.), Mathematics Curriculum in School Education (pp 333–350). New York, NY: Springer.
  • Even, R., Ayalon, M. & Olsher, S. (2016). Teacher editing textbooks: Transforming conventional connections between teachers, curriculum developers, and mathematicians. In M. Phakeng & S. Lerman (Eds.), Mathematics Education in a Context of Inequity, Poverty and Language Diversity (pp. 127–140). New York, NY: Springer.
  • Olsher, S. & Even, R. (2019). Organizing tools suggested by teachers in the textbook they use in class. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 17, 1381–1399.
  • Even, R. (2020). Mathematics teachers edit textbooks: Opportunities and challenges. In Y. Ben‐David Kolikant, D. Martinovic, & M. Milner‐Bolotin (Eds.), STEM teachers and teaching in the era of change (pp. 37-52). Springer, Cham.
  • Olsher, S. (2014).Changes in the textbook suggested by teachers using a Wikibook. Weizmann Institute of Science
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