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Noticing is a term used in everyday language to indicate the act of observing or recognizing something, and people engage in this activity regularly while they navigate a perceptually complex world. At the same time, individual professions have strategic ways of noticing, and understanding and promoting productive noticing by mathematics teachers has become a growing area of inquiry among researchers (For a compilation, see Sherin et al. 2011). The field currently embraces a range of conceptualizations of noticing, but many researchers use as their foundation Goodwin’s ideas about professional vision (1994), Mason’s (2002) discipline of noticing, and research on expertise.
Conceptualizations and Contributions of Mathematics Teacher Noticing
Teachers, in particular, have always been confronted with a “blooming, buzzing confusion of sensory data” (B. Sherin and Star in M.G. Sherin et al. 2011), and so they need to find ways to distinguish between more productive and less...
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Philipp, R., Jacobs, V.R., Sherin, M.G. (2014). Noticing of Mathematics Teachers. In: Lerman, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4978-8_120
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