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Hong Kong Teachers’ Centre Journal Vol. 3 © Hong Kong Teachers’ Centre 2004 Peer Tutoring in Pure Mathematics Subject CHEUNG Sze-Hung, Queenie Stewards Pooi Tun Secondary School Abstract Students need to be endowed with generic skills so as to meet the challenges of an ever changing and knowledge-based information society like Hong Kong. Traditional education systems that focus on memorization and examination cannot satisfy these new demands. So there is a need for the shift of learning and teaching (LT). This paper shares the experience of launching “Peer Tutoring” in Advanced-Level Pure Mathematics subject in one school. It focuses on how peer tutoring influences students’ learning behaviors and attitudes, learning effectiveness and skill promotion. The change of roles for students and teachers, advantages and limitations of peer tutoring will also be discussed. Keywords Peer tutoring, Learning behavior, Learning attitudes, Learning effectiveness, Skill promotion INTRODUCTION Educational reform in an information society like Hong communication, critical thinking, creativity, Kong in the 21st century focuses on equipping students collaboration, information technology, numeracy, with self-learning skills and broadened knowledge. problem solving, self management and study skills, According to the Curriculum Development Council, the should be developed through LT in the contexts of paradigm of “imparting knowledge” is shifting to that different subjects. Hence, teachers should no longer be of “fostering students to learn how to learn”, which merely knowledge transmitters, but also facilitators of involves reform of roles of students and teachers in the the independent learning process of their students processes of learning and teaching (LT). It is important (Curriculum Development Council, 2001). In response to teach