The driving forces behind mathematics learning trajectories is the need to understand how children actually learn and make sense of mathematicsuhow they progress from prior knowledge, through intermediate understandings, to the mathematics target understandingsuand how to use these insights to improve instruction and student learning. In this book, readers will come to understand what learning trajectories are, the research and methodology that are necessary for developing them, and gain insight into potential applications of learning trajectories. A synthesis and research outcome in their...

The driving forces behind mathematics learning trajectories is the need to understand how children actually learn and make sense of mathematicsuhow they progress from prior knowledge, through intermediate understandings, to the mathematics target understandingsuand how to use these insights to improve instruction and student learning. In this book, readers will come to understand what learning trajectories are, the research and methodology that are necessary for developing them, and gain insight into potential applications of learning trajectories. A synthesis and research outcome in their...