Morgan, CR;
Tang, S;
(2016)
To what extent are students expected to participate in specialised mathematical discourse? Change over time in school mathematics in England.
Research in Mathematics Education
, 18
(2)
pp. 142-164.
10.1080/14794802.2016.1174145.
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Abstract
From a discursive perspective, differences in the language in which mathematics questions are posed change the nature of the mathematics with which students are expected to engage. The project The Evolution of the Discourse of School Mathematics analysed the discourse of mathematics examination papers set in the UK between 1980 and 2011. In this article we address the issue of how students over this period have been expected to engage with the specialised discourse of school mathematics. We explain our analytic methods and present some outcomes of the analysis. We identify changes in engagement with algebraic manipulation, proving, relating mathematics to non-mathematical contexts and making connections between specialised mathematical objects. These changes are discussed in the light of public and policy domain debates about “standards” of examinations.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | To what extent are students expected to participate in specialised mathematical discourse? Change over time in school mathematics in England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14794802.2016.1174145 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14794802.2016.1174145 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Specialised discourse, mathematical discourse, examinations |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1475938 |
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