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Staats, Susan – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2018
A poetic structure occurs when a speaker's comment repeats some of the syntax and words of a previous comment. During a collaborative algebra task, a student explained a property five times over a few minutes, in slightly different ways. He consistently used poetic structures that were marked elaborately through discursive modes such as pause,…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Activities, Persuasive Discourse, Poetry