Facing the Mathematics: Students’ Critical Awareness of the Elusiveness of Mathematical Objects

dc.contributor.authorWagner, David
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-02T23:44:26Z
dc.date.available2023-03-02T23:44:26Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractWhat happens when mathematics students are invited to ask questions and make observations about the way discourse works in their classroom? This article describes my extended conversation with a high school mathematics class about a phenomenon that caught the attention of two girls in the class. Together we observed and reflected on the direction of one’s gaze during mathematics conversations. This discussion came about while I co-taught this class, prompting the students daily to become more aware of their language practices in class. This ‘critical language awareness’ effort aimed to address inequities in power relations within the classroom discourse by inviting student perspectives and resulted in drawing two students’ attention to the power of symbols.
dc.description.copyrighthttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1492-6156/
dc.identifier.urihttps://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/22421
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14926156.2011.595985
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.relation.hasversion10.1080/14926156.2011.595985
dc.rightshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
dc.subject.disciplineEducation
dc.titleFacing the Mathematics: Students’ Critical Awareness of the Elusiveness of Mathematical Objects
dc.typejournal article
oaire.citation.endPage305
oaire.citation.issue3
oaire.citation.startPage292
oaire.citation.titleCanadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education
oaire.citation.volume11

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