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Mathematical Literacy: Developing Identities of Inclusion book cover

1st Edition

Mathematical Literacy Developing Identities of Inclusion

By Yvette Solomon Copyright 2009
256 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge
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Why do so many learners, even those who are successful, feel that they are outsiders in the world of mathematics? Taking the central importance of language in the development of mathematical understanding as its starting point, Mathematical Literacy explores students’ experiences of doing mathematics from primary school to university - what they think mathematics is, how it is presented to... Read more

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part I: Inclusion and Exclusion

Chapter 1: Formulating the Problem: Identifying Mathematical Literacy

Chapter 2: Experiencing Mathematics: Building Classroom Cultures and Mathematics Histories

Chapter 3: Mathematical Moments and Mathematical Lives: Doing Mathematics at Northdown School

Chapter 4: Moving On and Moving Up? Entering the World of the Undergraduate Mathematics Student

Chapter 5: Doing Undergraduate Mathematics: Questions of Knowledge and Authority

Chapter 6: Creating Spaces: Identity and Community Beyond The First Year

Part II:  Developing Inclusion

Chapter 7: Subject Positions: Explaining Exclusion from Mathematics

Chapter 8: Supporting Mathematical Literacy

Chapter 9: Relationships with/in Mathematics: Inclusive Mathematics Literacy in Practice

Appendix A: The Education System in England and Wales

Appendix B: The Students, the Data and the Analysis

Notes

References

Author Index

Subject Index

Biography

Yvette Solomon is Reader in the Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, England.

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