Toward an Anthropology of Graphing

Semiotic and Activity-Theoretic Perspectives

Bibliographic Data

ID19908260
AuthorsWolff-Michael Roth (0000-0001-9344-496X, corresponding author)
Year2003
Publication date2003-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueToward an Anthropology of Graphing (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherSpringer Netherlands (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1007/978-94-010-0223-3
OpenAlexW609743888
ISBN9789401002233
Open LibraryOL21234382M
LanguageEN
Citations received10

During the summer of 1990, while taking my holidays to teach a university course of physics for elementary teachers, I also tutored one of the tenth-grade students at my school in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. In return for working with him for free, I had requested permission to audiotape our sessions; I wanted to use the transcripts as data sources for a chapter that I had been in­ vited to write. It so happened that I discovered and read Jean Lave's Cognition in Practice that very summer, which inspired me to read other books on mathe­ matics in everyday situations. Two years later, while conducting a study with my teacher colleague G. Michael Bowen on eighth-grade students' learning during an open-inquiry ecology unit, I discovered these students' tremendous data analysis skills that appeared to be a function of the deep familiarity with the objects and events that they had studied and mathematized earlier in the unit. I reported my findings in two articles, 'Mathematization of experience in a grade 8 open-inquiry environment: An introduction to the representational practices of science' and 'Where is the context in contextual word problems?: Mathematical practices and products in Grade 8 students' answers to story problems'. I Begin­ ning with that study, I developed a research agenda that focused on mathemati­ cal knowing in science and science-related professions. During the early 1990s, I was also interested in the notion of authentic practice as a metaphor for planning school science curriculum

Discipline · Epistemology · Linguistics · Population · Rhetorical question · Semiotics · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Media, Communication, and Education · Philosophy · Artificial intelligence · Graphic methods · Humanities · Mathematics · Science · Study and teaching · Artificial Intelligence

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