Reading Stances in Mathematics: Positioning Students and Texts
Department
Secondary and Middle Grades Education
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2005
Abstract
This review of recent literature, focusing on the integration of mathematics and reading, highlights three reading stances within mathematics classrooms. The first stance, reading problems, highlights the scope-and-sequence, transmission approach to learning mathematics, where the purpose of reading is to figure out how to solve an immediate mathematical problem. The second stance, reading mathematics, focuses on understanding the language of mathematics and often includes diverse texts. In the third stance, reading life, students extend their mathematical understanding to sociopolitical issues, particularly issues that affect students' daily lives. This review concludes by suggesting a source of text for reading life: environmental print.
Journal Title
Action in Teacher Education
Journal ISSN
0162-6620
Volume
27
Issue
2
First Page
68
Last Page
79
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1080/01626620.2005.10463384