What kinds of curriculum materials do mathematics teachers select and
use, and how? This question is complex, in a period of deep evolutions
of teaching resources, with the proficiency of online resources in
particular. How do teachers learn from these materials, and in which
ways do they 'tailor' them for their use and pupil learning? Teachers
collect resources, select, transform, share, implement, and revise them.
Drawing from the French term « ingénierie documentaire », we call these
processes « documentation ». The literal English translation is « to
work with documents », but the meaning it carries is richer.
Documentation refers to the complex and interactive ways that teachers
work with resources; in-class and out-of-class, individually, but also
collectively.