Mediating primary mathematics: Theory, concepts, and a framework for studying practice

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dc.article.end-page92en_ZA
dc.article.start-page71en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorVenkatakrishnan, H
dc.contributor.authorAskew, M
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-27T10:55:12Z
dc.date.available2021-01-27T10:55:12Z
dc.date.issued2018-01
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, we present and discuss a framework for considering the quality of primary teachers’ mediating of primary mathematics within instruction. The “mediating primary mathematics” framework is located in a sociocultural view of instruction as mediational, with mathematical goals focused on structure and generality. It focuses on tasks and example spaces, artifacts, inscriptions, and talk as the key mediators of instruction. Across these mediating strands, we note trajectories from error and a lack of coherence, via coherence localized in particular examples or example spaces, towards building a more generalized coherence beyond the specific example space being worked with. Considering primary mathematics teaching in this way foregrounds the nature of the mathematics that is made available to learn, and we explore the affordances of attending to both coherence and structure/generality. Differences in ways of using the framework when either considering the quality of instruction or working to develop the quality of instruction are taken up in our discussion.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianMS2021en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationVenkatakrishnan H., & Askew, M.(2018) Mediating primary mathematics: Theory, concepts, and a framework for studying practice. Educ Stud Math 97, 71–92en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn00131954
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/30404
dc.journal.issue1en_ZA
dc.journal.linkhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-017-9776-1en_ZA
dc.journal.titleEducational Studies in Mathematicsen_ZA
dc.journal.volume97en_ZA
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisheren_ZA
dc.rightsCopyright © 2017, Springer Science Business Media B.V.en_ZA
dc.schoolWits School of Educationen_ZA
dc.subjectArtifactsen_ZA
dc.subjectInscriptionsen_ZA
dc.subjectInstructional qualityen_ZA
dc.subjectMediationen_ZA
dc.subjectPrimary mathematics teachingen_ZA
dc.subjectSociocultural theoryen_ZA
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_ZA
dc.titleMediating primary mathematics: Theory, concepts, and a framework for studying practiceen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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