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Mapping the Materiality of Classroom Discourse

Expression and Content in School Mathematics

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Mathematics is often considered an entirely cognitive activity pertaining to immaterial, ideal abstract forms. Plato argued that mathematical concepts are unchanging and eternal and exist in an ideal realm of pure being known to us through reason and reflection, while the physical world is the world of change and becoming known through the senses.

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Freitas, E.d. (2013). Mapping the Materiality of Classroom Discourse. In: Masny, D. (eds) Cartographies of Becoming in Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-170-2_10

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