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Download full textLeatham, Keith R.; Peterson, Blake E.; Merrill, Lindsay M.; Van Zoest, Laura R.; Stockero, Shari L. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
We theorize about ambiguity in mathematical communication and define a certain subset of ambiguous language usage as imprecise. For us, imprecision in classroom mathematics discourse hinders in-the-moment communication because the instance of imprecision is likely to create inconsistent interpretations of the same statement among individuals. We…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Mathematics Instruction, Discourse Communities
