How Students' Everyday Situations Modify Classroom Mathematical Activity: The Case of Water Consumption

Autor:	Vanessa Sena Tomaz, Maria Manuela David
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Mathematics (miscellaneous) Logical reasoning Pedagogy Power structure Mathematics education Psychology Mathematics instruction Water consumption Education
Zdroj:	Journal for Research in Mathematics Education. 46:455-496
ISSN:	1945-2306 0021-8251
Popis:	Our aim is to discuss how school mathematical activity is modified when students' everyday situations are brought into the classroom. One illustrative sequence—7th grade classes solving problems that required proportional reasoning—is characterized as a system of interconnected activities within the theoretical perspective of activity theory. We discuss the tensions and contradictions that evolve when a generic school procedure emphasized by the teacher meets the specific procedures applicable to everyday situations proposed by the students. We evaluate the modifications that we perceived in the power relationships and other components of the school activity and the expansion of the meaning of those procedures as positive outcomes of how everyday situations were dealt with in school mathematics.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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