What is mathematics teaching talk for? A response based on three sites of practice in mathematics education
Planas, Núria (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Adler, Jill (University of Witwatersrand)
Mwadzaangati, Lisnet (University of Malawi)

Date:	2022
Abstract:	During the last decades, the study of how learners and teachers of mathematics use the resource of language has contributed to our understanding of mathematics teaching and learning in a variety of classrooms and cultures. Developmental work with mathematics teachers on the particular resource of mathematics teaching talk is more recent. In order to explore responses related to the importance of this talk, in this paper we consider three sites of practice in mathematics education-research, professional development and teaching-and illustrations of data from or about them, including studies from the literature, and work with secondary school mathematics teachers in Catalonia-Spain and Malawi around the teaching of angles. We argue that tensions permeate these sites of practice when a focus is placed on word use, specifcally the practices of naming and explaining, in mathematics teaching talk. We conclude that the importance of mathematics teaching talk is construed through tensions with other resources in language and teaching. Tensions specifcally appear in the realisation of mathematics teaching talk as mediational in the work with mathematics teachers on their classroom teaching.
Grants:	Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PID2019-104964 GB-100 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017SGR-101
Note:	Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB
Note:	Altres ajuts: the South African Research Chairs Initiative of the Department of Science and Technology and the National Research Foundation, Grant no. 71218 at the University of the Witwatersrand; and the School of Education, University of Malawi.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Mathematics teaching talk ; Naming and explaining ; Mathematics education research community ; Teacher professional development ; Classroom teaching
Published in:	ZDM - Mathematics Education, 07 December 2022, ISSN 1863-9704

DOI: 10.1007/s11858-022-01452-5

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