Teaching and Learning Mathematics in Multilingual Classrooms / edited by Anjum Halai, Philip Clarkson.

Contemporary concerns in mathematics education recognize that in the increasingly technological and globalized world, with concomitant change in population demographics (e.g. immigration, urbanization) and a change in the status of languages (e.g. English as a dominant language of science and techno...

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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 266 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Notes on Contributions
  • Section I: Review and Critique of Mathematics Education in Multilingual Contexts
  • Teaching and Learning Mathematics in Multilingual Classrooms: An Overview
  • Mathematics Education and Language Diversity: Past, Present and Future
  • Mathematics Education, Language and Superdiversity
  • Section II: Policy and Mathematics Education in Multilingual Contexts
  • The Intertwining of Politics and Mathematics Teaching in Papua New Guinea
  • Language of Instruction and Learners’ Participation in Mathematics: Dynamics of Distributive Justice in the Classroom
  • Transition of the Medium of Instruction from English to Kiswahili in Tanzanian Primary Schools: Challenges from the Mathematics Classroom
  • Section III: Learning Mathematics in Multilingual Classrooms
  • “x-Arbitrary Means Any Number, but You Do Not Know Which One”: The Epistemic Role of Languages While Constructing Meaning for the Variable as Generalizers
  • Multilingual Students’ Agency in Mathematics Classrooms
  • Students’ Use of Their Languages and Registers: An Example of the Socio-Cultural Role of Language in Multilingual Classrooms
  • Productivity and Flexibility of (First) Language Use: Qualitative and Quantitative Results of an Interview Series on Chances and Needs of Speaking Turkish for Learning Mathematics in Germany
  • Supporting the Participation of Immigrant Learners in South Africa: Switching to Two Additional Languages
  • Sect ion IV: Mathematics Teaching and Teacher Education in Multilingual Classrooms
  • Operationalising Wenger’s Communities of Practice Theory for Use in Multilingual Mathematics Teacher Education Contexts
  • Developing Mathematical Reasoning in English Second-Language Classrooms Based on Dialogic Practices: A Case Study
  • Mathematics Teacher’s Language Practices in a Grade 4 Multilingual Class
  • Complementary Functions of Learning Mathematics in Complementary Schools
  • The Evolution of Mathematics Teaching in Mali and Congo-Brazzaville and the Issue of the Use of French or Local Languages.