Spoken mathematics as an instructional strategy: the public discourse of mathematics classrooms in different countries
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posted on 2013-01-01, 00:00authored byD Clarke, Lihua XuLihua Xu, M Wan
This chapter examines the use of spoken mathematics in the public discourse of eighth-grade mathematics classrooms internationally. By “spoken mathematics” we mean the recognizably mathematical terms used in spoken interaction in the classroom. Our principal focus was the relatively sophisticated terms by which each lesson’s central concepts or procedures were named. In our analysis we addressed the question(s): “What is the occurrence of publicly spoken mathematics in the different classrooms studied and what efforts do the teachers appear to make to promote students’ use of technical mathematical terms in their public classroom talk?” A companion chapter examines the question of students’ private spoken mathematics in the classroom and the possible learning that might result.
History
Chapter number
2
Pagination
13-31
ISBN-13
9789462093492
ISBN-10
9462093490
Language
eng
Publication classification
B1.1 Book chapter
Copyright notice
2013, Sense Publishers
Extent
12
Editor/Contributor(s)
Kaur B, Anthony G, Ohtani M, Clarke D
Publisher
Sense Publishers
Place of publication
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Title of book
Student voice in mathematics classrooms around the world