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As a reflection on cultural anthropology and developmental psychology, Super and Harkness developed the concept of “developmental niche” (1986, 1994, 2002, 2007). Krummheuer modified this concept for the purpose of creating a theoretical framework for the development of an interactional theory of mathematics learning in the early years—the “interactional niche in the development of mathematical thinking (NMT).” Furthermore, this theoretical framework has been adapted to the reconstruction of mathematics learning in the familial context—the NMT-Family (Krummheuer, Die “Interaktionale Nische mathematischer Denkentwicklung” (NMD). Beiträge zum Mathematikunterricht 2011, pp. 495–498, 2011a; Die Projekte erStMaL und MaKreKi. Mathematikdidaktische Forschung am “Center for Individual Development and Adaptive Education” (IDeA), pp. 25–90, 2011b; Journal für Mathematik-Didaktik 33:317–338, 2012). First results of this study will be presented here.
Interactional Niche in the Development of Mathematical Thinking (NMT) in Familial Situations
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This part is translated into English from the German article (Acar Bayraktar and Krummheuer 2011).
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Acar Bayraktar, E. (2014). The Reflection of Spatial Thinking on the Interactional Niche in the Family. In: Kortenkamp, U., Brandt, B., Benz, C., Krummheuer, G., Ladel, S., Vogel, R. (eds) Early Mathematics Learning. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4678-1_7
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