Working in the Mathematics Frame: Maximizing the Potential To Learn from Students' Mathematics Classroom Discussions.

McNair, Rodney E.

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ERIC Number: EJ623865

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Publication Date: 2000

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Working in the Mathematics Frame: Maximizing the Potential To Learn from Students' Mathematics Classroom Discussions.

McNair, Rodney E.

Educational Studies in Mathematics, v42 n2 p197-209 2000

Discusses three constructs--subject, purpose, and frame--and how they can be used to analyze and characterize the quality of students' mathematics classroom discussion in terms of the mathematics learning potential that those discussions provide. (Contains 17 references.) (Author/ASK)

Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Modes, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Education, Small Group Instruction

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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