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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Other Authors: Abreu, Guida de, Bishop, Alan J., Presmeg, Norma C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2002]
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.