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Sian Zelbo – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2025
This essay examines how line graphs functioned as markers of status and authority in early 20th-century America, distinguishing intellectual elites from ordinary citizens. Despite education reformers' efforts to democratize functional thinking and graphical representation in the first decades of the century, line graphs retained their position as…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Graphs, Mathematics Skills, Educational Change
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Francesco Beccuti – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2025
Research in mathematics education has long identified the ideology of certainty as central to mathematical instruction and to the way in which mathematics is (mis)used in social and political discourses. As we will see, this ideology is not merely a matter of individual beliefs, but is deeply embedded in the material practices and power structures…
Descriptors: Ideology, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Politics of Education
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Oi-Lam Ng – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2025
This essay extends beyond the characteristics and discourse of word problems to, more generally, school mathematical problem-solving and the implications entailed by a predominant paper-and-pencil mode of learning and instruction since the modern era of education. Contrasting what I call "one-handed" (with paper-and-pencil) with…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Computation, Problem Solving, Mathematics Education
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Sheena Tan – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2025
The research on mathematical argumentation has mainly adopted a dialectic lens which focuses on understanding the abstract and logical development of reasoning in argumentation. However, this approach may have overlooked other key aspects of mathematical argumentation, including the unfolding of the meaning-making experience and process during…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills, Persuasive Discourse
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Marie Therese Farrugia – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2025
Mathematics education in post-colonial Malta is experienced bilingually by teachers and students. I was recently involved in the publication of a bilingual (English / Maltese) glossary of mathematics terms relevant to early childhood and elementary classes. Work on the glossary involved compiling already existing Maltese mathematics terms and also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Semitic Languages
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Shai Olsher; Aehsan Haj-Yahya – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2025
Constructing mathematical proofs is a fundamental yet challenging skill in secondary school geometry. While technology has been used to scaffold different aspects of the proving process, existing approaches often separate inquiry and conjecturing from formal proof or focus on structural and technical assistance without addressing students' initial…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Logic, Validity, Geometry
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Maria Hedefalk; Lovisa Sumpter – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2025
We live in an increasingly worrying future, where researchers are looking at how we can create education for a sustainable world. In this study we investigate what such education could look like, especially for young students, reinforcing hope and an ability to act and come up with ideas of sustainable solutions with no obvious 'good' solution.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Ethics, Sustainability
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Galit Nagari-Haddif; Ronnie Karsenty; Abraham Arcavi – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2025
Planning lessons and in-the-moment improvising during enactment of the plan are two central activities inherent to the practice of teaching. To what extent are these pursuits conflicting or inconsistent? What are the characteristics of improvisation during teaching and what are teachers' possible stances on it? We discuss these questions based on…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Planning, Teaching Methods, Creative Activities
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Constantinos Xenofontos – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2025
Building on Umberto Eco's concept of Ur-Fascism, this essay examines how authoritarian traits permeate mathematics education. Through a reflective analysis of my prior research within the context of Cyprus, I discuss troubling patterns of centralised control, rigid traditions, and hierarchical structures shaping the educational landscape. These…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Authoritarianism, Misinformation
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Anna Wallin; Paola Valero; Eva Norén – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2025
Drawing on research in the context of Swedish school-age educare and adopting a post-humanist theoretical--methodological approach, we put forward the notion of mathemat-ing to conceptualise mathematical events that emerge in out-of-school configurations of practice. In them, ethical sensibilities as affects of engagement and rejection may be…
Descriptors: Ethics, Mathematics Instruction, Child Care, Foreign Countries
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Jane M. Watson; Zalman Usiskin – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2025
A newspaper article about the availability of guns in Chicago, presented at a mathematics education conference in that city in 1998, is linked to a tragic shooting near that city in 2022. The article was used in Australia for many years in research with teachers and students to assess statistical literacy in relation to sampling, until ethics…
Descriptors: News Reporting, Weapons, Mathematics Education, Conferences (Gatherings)