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Talking about teaching mathematics

In 'Deep Progress' we showed that teachers who make a difference for PLAS do not all teach in the same way - it is the underlying principles which are more important than the way they are enacted. In this project teachers became more articulate together about how they teach because that is the main focus of every formal and informal meeting. In a later section of this report we give more detail about lessons - this section reports what they said in meetings about their teaching. We also show how the prevailing expectations in the departments influence what can be said. We present this as a list of ways to talk about mathematics teaching: