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The article discusses fieldwork completed at Kenilworth Castle in England to teach the connections between history and mathematics. Topics discussed include the involvement of trainee teachers in the fieldwork, the ways in which the fieldwork encouraged an interdisciplinary approach to teaching various subject curricula, and the ways in which symmetry and shape can be taught using castles.

The article presents information about teaching of mathematics in Flanders, England, Hungary and Spain. Video-recording was done of a single lesson in each country on four key topics. It showed how effective teachers in each country conceptualized and taught key topics of interest all teachers. The topics were percentages, polygons at upper primary and secondary level and linear equations. After the videotaping was over, the videotape was transferred to CD ROM. The working definitions for coding the episodes of project lessons of the ten didactic categories was given in a tabular form.