Construction of mathematical meaning in a 6th grade classroom : an analysis of modal auxiliaries in teacher interrogatives across the teaching of fractions and geometry

This qualitative interpretive inquiry investigates how mathematical meaning is constructed in a sixth grade classroom during one academic year in an English medium suburban school. Mathematical meaning is situated within Piaget's constructivist theory and Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory o...

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Main Author: O'Connor, Peggy A.
Other Authors: Maguire, Mary H. (advisor)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 1998
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