Integrating Everyday and Scientific Ways of Knowing Mathematics Through Forms of Participation in Classroom Talk

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Brown, Raymond
Renshaw, Peter
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2004
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Integrating everyday and scientific discourses is regarded as essential in developing a deep
understanding of specific domains of knowledge. The process of integration, however, may
occur in quite different ways. In this paper we analyse two forms of the integration process
– replacement and interweaving – which provide a heuristic for considering how students
might develop facility in mathematical thinking. In an analysis of student talk in a Year 7
classroom we found that replacement and interweaving can facilitate deep understanding.
The flexible deployment of both discourse formats is recommended.Integrating everyday and scientific discourses is regarded as essential in developing a deep
understanding of specific domains of knowledge. The process of integration, however, may
occur in quite different ways. In this paper we analyse two forms of the integration process
– replacement and interweaving – which provide a heuristic for considering how students
might develop facility in mathematical thinking. In an analysis of student talk in a Year 7
classroom we found that replacement and interweaving can facilitate deep understanding.
The flexible deployment of both discourse formats is recommended.
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Mathematics Education for the Third Millennium: Towards 2010
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