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Spoken mathematics as an instructional strategy: the public discourse of mathematics classrooms in different countries

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posted on 2013-01-01, 00:00 authored by D 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.

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Title of book

Student voice in mathematics classrooms around the world

Chapter number

2

Pagination

13 - 31

Publisher

Sense Publishers

Place of publication

Rotterdam, Netherlands

ISBN-13

9789462093492

ISBN-10

9462093490

Language

eng

Publication classification

B1.1 Book chapter

Copyright notice

2013, Sense Publishers

Extent

12

Editor/Contributor(s)

B Kaur, G Anthony, M Ohtani, D Clarke

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