Research Seminar in Mathematics Education
05 April 2016 13:15 T127, Teknikhuset
How communication and reasoning in the mathematics classroom can contribute to students’ meaning-making.
Speaker
Maike Schindler, Örebro University.
Summary
Communication and reasoning in the mathematics classroom are increasingly in the focus of mathematics education research – with good reason. Research results indicate that the reasoning in the classroom is interrelated with students’ meaning-making and that communication can contribute to students’ understanding.
In this talk, I present two empirical studies that I conducted in collaboration with teachers and students on lower and upper secondary level from local schools in Örebro. Theoretical tools that were used for designing and analyzing classroom communication will be presented; including Robert Brandom’s contemporary philosophy of inferentialism. The focus of the talk is on results from the empirical projects, in which whole-class communication as well as group communication was investigated.
The talk addresses researchers in mathematics education and other educational sciences as well as university teachers interested in improving communication and students’ understanding in their teaching.