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Title Challenging perspectives on mathematics classroom communication / edited by Anna Chronaki and Iben Maj Christiansen
Published Greenwich, Conn. : IAP-Information Age Pub., [2004]
©2004

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Description xi, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series International perspectives on mathematics education
International perspectives on mathematics education.
Contents Machine derived contents note: vii -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- xi -- part I -- Introduction -- 1. Challenging Perspectives on Mathematics Classroom Communication: -- From Representations to Contexts, Interactions, and Politics -- Anna Chronaki and Iben Maj Christiansen 3 -- part II -- Contributed Chapters -- Theme 1: -- Communication: Register, Representations, Context(s) -- 49 -- 2. Humans-with-Media: Transforming Communication -- in the Classroom -- Marcelo C. Borba 51 -- 3. Integrating Different Representational Media -- in Geometry Classrooms -- Triandafillos A. Triandafillidis and Despina Potari 79 -- 4. Mathematics as Text -- Tamsin Meaney 109 -- IA191-Chronaki.book Page vii Wednesday, September 1, 2004 5:20 PM -- viii CONTENTS -- Theme 2: -- Communication: Social Interactions, Social Setting, -- Classroom Activity -- 143 -- 5. Communication in the Mathematics Classroom: Argumentation -- and Development of Mathematical Knowledge -- Nadia Douek 145 -- 6. Understanding Mathematical Induction in a Cooperative Setting: -- Merits and Limitations of Classroom Communication -- amongst Peers -- Inger Wistedt and Gudrun Brattstrm̲ 173 -- 7. Conflicts and Harmonies among Different Aspects -- of Mathematical Activity -- Dave Hewitt 205 -- Theme 3: -- Communication: Practice, Community, Identity, Politics -- 235 -- 8. Sharing Shoes and Counting Years: Mathematics, Colonialization, -- and Communication -- Wenda K. Bauchspies 237 -- 9. School Mathematics: Discourse and the Politics of Context -- Dalene M. Swanson 261 -- 10. Critical Communication in and through Mathematics Classrooms -- Tony Cotton 295 -- part III -- Reflective Commentaries -- Commentary 1: -- Challenging Discourse -- Anna Sfard 323 -- Commentary 2: -- Challenging Perspectives -- Helle Alr ̜and Ole Skovsmose 339 -- Commentary 3: -- Challenging Research Reading -- Stephen Lerman 349 -- About the Contributors -- 359
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Mathematical notation.
Mathematical notation -- United States.
Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- United States.
Communication in education -- United States.
Author Chronaki, Anna.
Christiansen, Iben Maj.
LC no. 2004022159
ISBN 1593111525
1593111517 paperback