Mathematics Education: Exploring the Culture of Learning

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ISBN: 9780415326995 | 0415326990
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/17/2003

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This book focuses on the issues surrounding researching mathematics education, in particular the notion of the culture of the mathematics classroom.

List of figures

vii

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viii

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Introduction: issues in researching mathematics learning

(6)

BARBARA ALLEN AND SUE JOHNSTON-WILDER

SECTION 1 Culture of the mathematics classroom - including equity and social justice

(110)

1 Images of mathematics, values and gender: a philosophical perspective

(15)

PAUL ERNEST

2 Towards a sociology of learning in primary schools

(17)

ANDREW POLLARD

3 Learners as authors in the mathematics classroom

(14)

HILARY POVEY AND LEONE BURTON WITH CORINNE ANGIER AND MARK BOYLAN

4 Paradigmatic conflicts in informal mathematics assessment as sources of social inequity

(12)

ANNE WATSON

5 Constructing the 'legitimate' goal of a 'realistic' maths item: a comparison of 10-11- and 13-14-year olds

(22)

BARRY COOPER AND MÁIRÉAD DUNNE

6 Establishing a community of practice in a secondary mathematics classroom

(28)

MERRILYN COOS, PETER GALBRAITH AND PETER RENSHAW

SECTION 2 Communication in mathematics classrooms

117

(56)

7 Mathematics, social class and linguistic capital: an analysis of mathematics classroom interactions

119

(15)

ROBYN ZEVENBERGEN

8 What is the role of diagrams in communication of mathematical activity?

134

(12)

CANDIA MORGAN

9 'The whisperers': rival classroom discourses and inquiry mathematics

146

(13)

JENNY HOUSSART

10 Steering between skills and creativity: a role for the computer?

159

(14)

GELIA HOYLES

SECTION 3 Pupils' and teachers' perceptions

173

(70)

11 The relationship of teachers' conceptions of mathematics and mathematics teaching to instructional practice

175

(20)

ALBA GONZALEZ THOMPSON

12 Setting, social class and survival of the quickest

195

(24)

JO BOALER

13 'I'll be a nothing': structure, agency and the construction of identity through assessment

219

(14)

DIANE REAP AND DYLAN WILIAM

14 Pupils' perspectives on learning mathematics

233

(10)

BARBARA ALLEN

Index

243

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