Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Preface by Series Editor; Mathematical Myths; Juggling Pots and Texts; Sociology, Education and the Production of 'Ability'; The Analysis of School Texts: Some Empirical Antecedents; Towards a Language of Description: Some Theoretical Antecedents; Constructive Description and Social Activity Theory; An Introduction to the Empirical Text; The Textualizing of Algebra; Genres of Production; Setting and the Public Domain; Interpellating the Teacher; Disturbing and Re-establishing Equilibrium; References and Bibliography
Index
Summary
The author argues that the reason why children still 'fail' at maths at school - despite the shift to 'easier' and more 'approachable' maths teaching since the 1960s - is because of the textbooks in use
