Action research as a potent methodology for improving teaching and learning in mathematics

International audienceThis paper represents an effort of the author to better understand teachers’ perceptions of their experiences during their engagement in the action research process. In completing their action research projects, teachers not only learned how to conduct research themselves but, also, they shared some of their experiences. The course structure has had the effect of encouraging teachers to try new methods in their teaching, to use new resources and to improve the communication outside class in order to improve their teaching and their students’ performance in mathematics. Further, it was discussed about the possibility of involving teachers, both, pre-service and in-service, in the action research studies and the possibility of support for them from the university and the government as an initiative for the successful implementation of education reforms