Do they really need to raise their hands? Challenging a traditional social norm in a second grade mathematics classroom

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1067-1076

  Dixon, Juli K ^a   Egendoerfer, Lisa A ^b   Clements, Taylar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Spring Lake Elementary   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse; Elementary education; Mathematical explanations and justifications; Mathematics education; Social norms; Sociomathematical norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349193066     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2009.04.011     Document Type: Article

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