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ERIC Number: ED657966
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 9
Abstractor: As Provided
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Sociomathematical Scaffolding as Students Engage in Disciplinary Practices
Kristen Vroom
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (45th, Reno, NV, Oct 1-4, 2023)
Instructors manage several tensions as they support students to engage in mathematical disciplinary practices such as defining, conjecturing, and proving. These tensions include honoring students' contributions while simultaneously apprenticing students to following mathematical norms. I present a case study of a teacher-researcher in a laboratory setting who was particularly skilled at this endeavor. I found that the teacher-researcher engaged in a pattern in which the teacher-researcher cycled between inquiring into the students' thinking about their draft of a definition, conjecture, or proof and then engaged in scaffolding, including scaffolding of mathematical norms. I exemplify this pattern with an episode of students writing a conjecture equivalent to the Archimedean Property that served as a warrant for one of their proofs. I close the paper discussing complexities of apprenticeship into the norms of the discipline. [For the complete proceedings, see ED657822.]
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. e-mail: pmena.steeringcommittee@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.pmena.org/
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: 1916490