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To What Extent Are Students Expected to Participate in Specialised Mathematical Discourse? Change over Time in School Mathematics in England
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Morgan, Candia; Tang, Sarah – Research in Mathematics Education, 2016
From a discursive perspective, differences in the language in which mathematics questions are posed change the nature of the mathematics with which students are expected to engage. The project The Evolution of the Discourse of School Mathematics (EDSM) analysed the discourse of mathematics examination papers set in the UK between 1980 and 2011. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics, Mathematics Education, Discourse Analysis
Investigating the Geometry Curriculum in Palestinian Textbooks: Towards Multimodal Analysis of Arabic Mathematics Discourse
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Alshwaikh, Jehad – Research in Mathematics Education, 2016
The analytical scheme used in the project The Evolution of the Discourse of School Mathematics (EDSM) was developed to analyse the change over time in examination texts. An adapted version of the EDSM scheme has been deployed to analyse the nature of mathematics construed in Palestinian schools' textbooks and the mathematical activity expected of…
Descriptors: Geometry, Mathematics Curriculum, Textbooks, Mathematics Activities