Transitions Between Contexts of Mathematical Practices

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Abreu, Guida de. (Editor), Presmeg, Norma C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Series: Mathematics Education Library ; 27
• Subjects: Education.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Mathematics Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Cross Cultural Psychology.
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This book focuses attention on mathematics learners in transition and on their practices in different contexts; on the institutional and socio-cultural framing of the transition processes involved; and on the communication and negotiation of mathematical meanings during transition. The book offers b...

Table of Contents:

• EditorsỚ" Prelude Researching Mathematics Learning: The Need for a New Approach
• Mathematics Learners in Transition
• Immigrant Children Learning Mathematics in Mainstream Schools
• The Transition Experience of Immigrant Secondary School Students: Dilemmas and Decisions
• Thinking About Mathematical Learning with Cabo Verde Ardinas
• Exploring Ways Parents Participate in Their ChildrenỚ"s School Mathematical Learning: Cases Studies in Multiethnic Primary Schools
• Transitions between Home and School Mathematics: Rays of Hope Amidst the Passing Clouds
• EditorsỚ" Interlude Theoretical Orientations to Transitions
• Towards a Cultural Psychology Perspective on Transitions between Contexts of Mathematical Practices
• Mathematical Acculturation, Cultural Conflicts, and Transition
• Shifts in Meaning During Transitions
• EditorsỚ" Postlude The Sociocultural Mediation of Transition.