Toward an Anthropology of Graphing: Semiotic and Activity-Theoretic Perspectives - Couverture rigide

Roth, W.M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1402013744 ISBN 13 : 9781402013744

Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

During the summer of 1990, while taking my holidays to teach a university course of physics for elementary teachers, I also tutored one of the tenth-grade students at my school in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. In return for working with him for free, I had requested permission to audiotape our sessions; I wanted to use the transcripts as data sources for a chapter that I had been in- vited to write. It so happened that I discovered and read Jean Lave's Cognition in Practice that very summer, which inspired me to read other books on mathe- matics in everyday situations. Two years later, while conducting a study with my teacher colleague G. Michael Bowen on eighth-grade students' learning during an open-inquiry ecology unit, I discovered these students' tremendous data analysis skills that appeared to be a function of the deep familiarity with the objects and events that they had studied and mathematized earlier in the unit. I reported my findings in two articles, 'Mathematization of experience in a grade 8 open-inquiry environment: An introduction to the representational practices of science' and 'Where is the context in contextual word problems?: Mathematical practices and products in Grade 8 students' answers to story problems'. I Begin- ning with that study, I developed a research agenda that focused on mathemati- cal knowing in science and science-related professions. During the early 1990s, I was also interested in the notion of authentic practice as a metaphor for planning school science curriculum.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1402013744
• ISBN 13: 9781402013744
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 353
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