Research behind the Best Evidence Synthesis

Item number
BES017

BES selection
Mathematics BES

Format
Journal article

Title
Sociomathematical norms, argumentation, and autonomy in mathematics

Author
Yackel, Erna ; Cobb, Paul

Publisher
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Publishing Year
1996

Source
Journal for research in mathematics education, v27 n.4 p.458-477

ISSN
00218251

Subject
Curriculum

Descriptors
Curriculum ; Number concepts ; Mathematics education ; Mathematics teaching ; Junior school ; Primary education ; Mathematics skills ; Student development

Age Focus
Young children (0 to 4 years)

Education level
Primary education

Language
English

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Abstract
Presents a way of interpreting mathematics classrooms, by advancing the notion of sociomathematical norms, to account for how students develop mathematical beliefs and values and how they become intellectually autonomous in mathematics. Includes episodes from a second-grade classroom to clarify the processes by which sociomathematical norms are interactively constituted. (Author)

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