Transitions between contexts of mathematical practices /
This book focuses attention on mathematics learners in transition and on their practices in different contexts; on the institutional and socio-cultural framing of the transition processes involved; and on the communication and negotiation of mathematical meanings during transition. The book offers b...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; Boston :
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
[2002]
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| Series: | Mathematics education library ;
v. 27. |
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Table of Contents:
- Editors' prelude: Researching mathematics learning: the need for a new approach
- Mathematics learners in transition / Guida de Abreu, Alan Bishop, Norma Presmeg
- Immigrant children learning mathematics in mainstream schools / Núria Gorgorió, Núria Planas, Xavier Vilella
- Transition experience of immigrant secondary school students: dilemmas and decisions / Alan Bishop
- Thinking about mathematical learning with Cabo Verde Ardinas / Madalena Santos, Joa̋o Filipe Matos
- Exploring ways parents participate in their children's school mathematical learning: cases studies in multiethnic primary schools / Guida de Abreu, Tony Cline, Tatheer Shamsi
- Transitions between home and school mathematics: rays of hope amidst the passing clouds / Marta Civil, Rosi Andrade
- Editors' interlude: Theoretical orientations to transitions
- Towards a cultural psychology perspective on transitions between contexts of mathematical practices / Guida de Abreu
- Mathematical acculturation, cultural conflicts, and transition / Alan Bishop
- Shifts in meaning during transitions / Norma Presmeg
- Editors' postlude: Sociocultural mediation of transition.