“It gives you that sense of hope”: An exploration of technology use to mediate student engagement with mathematics

to tease out the ways in which exemplary teachers use technology to enhance pedagogical relationships with students and their pedagogical repertoires. We find that the teachers and students reported evidence of all elements of the FEM, but to differing degrees. In particular, we identified that teachers used technological tools to enhance teacher awareness of individual student learning needs and to promote student-centred pedagogies leading to greater student engagement with mathematics. We contend that a greater awareness of the nuanced pedagogical affordances of a range of technological tools could lead teachers toward practices that enhance student engagement with mathematics, leading to an increase in students wishing to extend their mathematical knowledge beyond the compulsory school years.