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Detailed Task Description - Group task This task is to be completed in a group of three or four students in which collaboration about curriculum issues should model itself on the way teachers in schools are currently being asked to work. The professional work of teachers embeds substantial dialogue on the interpretation of curriculum and the means by which it is implemented. Your group is required to analyse the Number and algebra strand of the Australian curriculum including the definition and the content descriptors from Foundation through to Year 9. 1. Select one topic within the strand. 2. Analyse the development of declarative and procedural knowledge through the years. 3. Represent the development of key declarative and procedural knowledge to make the key stages of development evident to your audience. You need to design a graphic organiser with which to do this. 4. Identify issues/challenges for learners in the key stages. State the issues/challenges clearly and describe their origin. 5. Identify literature-based responses to the issues/challenges identified in 4 above. 6. Each group member will submit a précis of new understanding from this collaboration no longer in length than one A4 page in hard copy. Your group will collaborate via a wiki created in Wikispace to which you give access to your lecturer. Your wikispace needs to be well organised to provide evidence of substantial collaboration that results in analysis and clearly organised conclusions about the teaching of Number and algebra.