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Ryan, Ulrika; Chronaki, Anna – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2020
This paper discusses the place of precision in mathematics education by exploring its role in curricular guidelines and in classroom life. By means of a joke on precision delivered by a school student in South Sweden, our study focuses on student participation in mathematical tasks that require precision in processes of measuring and reasoning.…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries, Student Participation
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Inglis, Matthew; Mejia-Ramos, Juan; Simpson, Adrian – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2007
In recent years several mathematics education researchers have attempted to analyse students' arguments using a restricted form of Toulmina's ["The Uses of Argument," Cambridge University Press, UK, 1958] argumentation scheme. In this paper we report data from task-based interviews conducted with highly talented postgraduate mathematics students,…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Mathematics Education, Discourse Analysis, Mathematical Logic