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What Counts as Mathematical Discourse?
Moschkovich, Judit
International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Paper presented at the 27th International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Conference Held Jointly with the 25th PME-NA Conference (Honolulu, HI, Jul 13-18, 2003), v3 p325-332
In this paper I use situated and socio-cultural perspective (Gee, 1996 & 1999) to examine descriptions of mathematical discourse and an example of student talk in a mathematics classroom. Using this example, I discuss how the distinction between everyday and mathematical discourse can help or hinder us in hearing the mathematical content in student talk. (Contains 1 figure and 1 endnote.) [This work was supported in part by a grant from NSF (REC-9896129 and REC-0096065). For complete proceedings, see ED500858.]
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education, Language Styles, Language Acquisition
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