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...
Main Author: | O'Connor, Peggy A. |
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Other Authors: | Maguire, Mary H. (advisor) |
Format: | Others |
Language: | en |
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McGill University
1998
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Online Access: | http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35033 |
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