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In 2004, Canada’s national funding body for scientific research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), for the first time asserted itself in kindergarten to grade 12 science and mathematics education. The Council issued a request for proposals to establish, on a pilot basis, Centres for Research in Youth, Science Teaching and Learning (CRYSTALs). The primary purpose of these centres was to “increase our understanding of the skills and resources needed to improve the quality of science and mathematics education (K-12)” (NSERC, 2005). Proposals were required to show how the centres would establish effective collaborations between scientists and mathematicians and science and mathematics educators. Five centres were funded across the nation.
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Jenkins, F., Norris, S.P. (2012). Crystal—Alberta. In: Norris, S.P. (eds) Reading for Evidence and Interpreting Visualizations in Mathematics and Science Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-924-4_1
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