Research on Mathematics Classroom Practice encompasses very comprehensive themes and issues
that may include any studies and scientific experiments happening inside the classroom, including
consideration of the key agents in the classroom (the teachers and the students), undertaken with
diversified research objectives and theoretical backgrounds. To a certain extent, seeking an
international perspective provides some delineation of the topic. Studies will then focus on those
issues already prioritised as of interest by existing international comparative studies and those issues
seen as significant within an educational system. This lecture will draw upon the work of an
international project, the Learner’s Perspective Study (LPS), an international collaboration of 16
countries with the aim of examining in an integrated and comprehensive fashion the patterns of
participation in competently taught eighth grade mathematics classrooms.