Textbooks aren’t professional straitjackets

Charlie Stripp, director of the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM), writes: Good morning Year 4. Open your textbooks to page 17, please. Exercise 4a) Questions 1 to 15. You can start now.

For many of us, that sentence will ring a familiar bell. The word “textbook” conjures up an image of something teachers use to keep us occupied while they do something else. It’s an image that is grossly unfair to most teachers (and textbook authors), but it’s there nonetheless.

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