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ERIC Number: ED583686
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Nov
Pages: 8
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Sense-Making Practices of Expert and Novice Readers
Weinberg, Aaron; Wiesner, Emilie; Barr, John
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 (38th, Tucson, AZ, Nov 3-6, 2016)
Mathematics textbooks are a significant pedagogical tool, particularly in light of the growing interest in "flipped" classrooms. However, there has been little research on how mathematics students read and comprehend textbooks. This article uses the ideas of the implied reader, sense-making frames, and sense-making gaps to analyze students' reading of a section of a calculus textbook. In order to distinguish potential weaknesses in students' content knowledge from their reading abilities, the article also compares students' reading strategies to the reading strategies of "expert" readers: professors in technical fields other than mathematics. [For the complete proceedings, see ED583608.]
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: Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New York
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