Principal Investigator (2025-). The study surveys and informs the curricular learning and instructional practices of upper secondary and tertiary mathematics, drawing upon different methodologies (quantitative/qualitative) and epistemologies (cognitive/sociocultural). It will develop an instrument and quantitatively assess the participating teachers’ and students’ mathematical competence in the topics of pre-calculus and calculus, which are major domains in both secondary and tertiary education. Second, it will adopt an interview methodology, focusing on generating new understanding about the participant groups’ mathematics teaching and/or learning experiences, the challenges and opportunities faced, and the meanings associated with the experiences, while task-based interviews will reveal the participants’ thinking processes in solving the designed mathematical tasks.
Funded by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, General Research Fund ($490,500 HKD).
Oi-Lam Ng 