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Beyond the Apparent Banality of the Mathematics Classroom

  • The book presents nine research works within the chosen theme and focus in a coherent theoretical perspective. The other two are commentary papers offering a reflection on studies of classroom situations from the point of view of other theoretical viewpoints
  • For the time being, only a small number of publications on this topic (and with this approach isare available in English. Taking classroom situation and teacher’s work as central often gives rise to long term studies. A book offering results coming from such studies could be valuable for the community of researchers and mathematics educators

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. An Attempt to Model the Teacher’s Action in the Mathematics Class

    • GĂ©rard Sensevy, Maria-Luisa Schubauer-Leoni, Alain Mercier, Florence Ligozat, GĂ©rard Perrot
    Pages 153-181
  3. What Can the Teacher Learn in the Classroom?

    • Claire Margolinas, Lalina Coulange, Annie Bessot
    Pages 205-234
  4. Didactic Restrictions on the Teacher’s Practice: The Case of Limits of Functions in Spanish High Schools

    • Joaquim BarbĂ©, Marianna Bosch, Lorena Espinoza, Josep GascĂłn
    Pages 235-268

About this book

New research in mathematics education deals with the complexity of the mathematics’ classroom. The classroom teaching situation constitutes a pertinent unit of analysis for research into the ternary didactic relationship which binds teachers, students and mathematical knowledge. The classroom is considered as a complex didactic system, which offers the researcher an opportunity to gauge the boundaries of the freedom that is left with regard to choices about the knowledge to be taught and the ways of organizing the students’ learning, while giveing rise to the study of interrelations between three main elements of the teaching process the: mathematical content to be taught and learned, management of the various time dimensions, and activity of the teacher who prepares and manages the class, to the benefit of the students' knowledge and the teachers' own experience.

This volume, reprinted from Educational Studies in Mathematics, Volume 59, focuses on classroom situations as a unit of analysis, the work of the teacher, and is strongly anchored in original theoretical frameworks. The contributions are formulated from the perspective of one or more theoretical frameworks but they are tackled by means of empirical investigations.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Beyond the Apparent Banality of the Mathematics Classroom

  • Editors: Colette Laborde, Marie-Jeanne Perrin-Glorian, Anna Sierpinska

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30451-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-25353-4Published: 14 October 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3788-9Published: 29 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-30451-9Published: 11 March 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 325

  • Additional Information: Reprinted from EDUCATIONAL STUDIES IN MATHEMATICS, 59:1-3, 2005

  • Topics: Mathematics Education, Learning & Instruction

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Softcover Book USD 159.99
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