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Download full textSethole, Godfrey – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
This paper highlights an attempt by two grade 8 teachers, Bulelwa and Kevin, to draw in the everyday in the teaching of mathematics. Though located in different South African contexts and settings, both teachers tend to enable their learners' access to mathematics by rendering the everyday inauthentic. I argue that inauthenticating the everyday is…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Students
