This paper reports on the views of mathematics teachers on mathematics and its teaching up to grade 7. The 108 teachers who participated in the study came from schools within a state in India that followed the Central Board of Secondary Education International (CBSE-i) mathematics curriculum. At the beginning of the intervention programme the teachers were given six questions to reflect within the context of a group discussion. This study reports on the summary of the written group responses to the questions and the discussion that followed during the report back session. It was found that although the majority of the teachers were able to list the mathematics� topics to be studied as indicated in the syllabus very few consciously indicated that mathematics is studied to develop creativity. At least 80% of the teachers included in their responses learner-centred methods to the question on how mathematics is studied. Further about 94% of the 18 groups were able to satisfactorily explain what was meant by the concepts mathematical experiments and mathematics� laboratory.

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