This paper reports on a survey of secondary mathematics teachers' preferences in textbook characteristics and in the uses made of textbooks by them and their students. Teachers reported that characteristics related to student use of the books were important, ap paraently to enable students to use the books outside the classroorn.. The textbook appears not to figure prominently in the teaching process, the most important use being for student exercises both in class and for homework.
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