Becoming mathematical: Designing a curriculum for a mathematics club.

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dc.article.end-page15en_ZA
dc.article.start-page1en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorLampen, E.
dc.contributor.authorBrodie, K.
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-16T12:29:16Z
dc.date.available2022-03-16T12:29:16Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractMathematics clubs are becoming increasingly researched in South Africa, yet what might constitute a curriculum for such clubs has not been discussed. We present and analyse a curriculum design for clubs that we set up and worked with over three years. The goals of the clubs were to foster strong mathematical proficiency, identities and agency among learners through supporting their enjoyment of mathematics as a useful way to make sense of the world. We therefore developed a curriculum where learners could become and be ‘mathematical’, through drawing on both their everyday reasoning and the mathematics that they learned in school. Our analysis suggests an emergent, responsive curriculum, with tasks that can be categorised as: (1) becoming mathematical with everyday tasks, (2) becoming mathematical about mathematics, (3) being mathematical and making mathematics, and (4) mathematics. We argue that through such a curriculum, we can develop mathematical reasoning on the basis of learners’ everyday reasoning in ways that support their mathematical proficiency, identities and agency.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianMS2022en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationLampen, E., & Brodie, K. (2020). Becoming mathematical: Designing a curriculum for a mathematics club. Pythagoras, 41(1) 1-15.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2223-7895
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/32808
dc.journal.issue1en_ZA
dc.journal.linkhttps://doi.org/10.4102/pythagoras.v41i1.572en_ZA
dc.journal.titlePythagorasen_ZA
dc.journal.volume41en_ZA
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2020 Erna Lampen, Karin Brodieen_ZA
dc.schoolWits School of Educationen_ZA
dc.titleBecoming mathematical: Designing a curriculum for a mathematics club.en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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