| Description |
213 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Mathematics education library ; v. 14 |
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Mathematics education library ; v. 14
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| Contents |
The Culture of the Mathematics Classroom: An Unknown Quantity? / Marilyn Nickson -- Sets, Lies and Stereotypes / Richard Noss -- Mathematics by All / John D. Volmink -- Whose Culture Includes Mathematics? / Leone Burton -- Anthropology in the Mathematics Classroom? / Rik Pinxten -- What Happens When Robots Have Feelings? / Linda Gattuso -- The Computer as a Catalyst in the Mathematics Classroom? / Candia Morgan -- Spoken Mathematical Classroom Culture: Artifice and Artificiality / David Pimm -- Patterns of Interaction and the Culture of Mathematics Classrooms / Terry Wood -- Language and "Subjectivity" in the Mathematics Classroom / Jeff Evans and Anna Tsatsaroni -- Changing Focus in the Mathematics Classroom / Stephen Lerman |
| Summary |
Mathematics teaching and learning have been dominated by a concern for the intellectual readiness of the child, debates over role learning versus understanding, and recently mathematical processes and thinking. The gaze into today's mathematics classroom is firmly focused on the individual learner. Recently, however, studies of mathematics in social practices, including the market-place and the home, have initiated a shift in focus. Culture has become identified as the key to understanding the ground on which the learner appropriates meaning. The chapters in this timely book attempt to engage with this shift and offer original contributions to the debate about mathematics teaching and learning. They adopt theoretical perspectives whilst drawing on the classroom as both the source of investigation and the site of potential change and development. The book will be of central interest to lecturers and researchers and to teachers concerned with the classroom as a cultural phenomenon |
| Analysis |
Schools Curriculum Mathematics |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references page (211-213) |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Lerman, Stephen R
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| LC no. |
94017898 |
| ISBN |
0792329317 (alk. paper) |
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