Adult's mathematical thinking and emotions : a study of numerate practices / / Jeff Evans

• Autore: Evans Jeff <1944, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge Falmer, , 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Disciplina: 510.71; 510/.71/5
• Soggetto topico: Mathematics - Study and teaching (Continuing) - Ps; Mathematics Teaching & Research; Mathematics; Physical Sciences & Mathematics
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-287) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Series Editor's Preface; Author's Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Mathematics, the Difficult Subject; Developing Ideas and Methodologies for the Study; Overview of the Book; Mathematical Thinking in Context Among Adults; Recent British Surveys of Adult Numeracy; Conceptual Map and Research Questions; Survey Results for Performance and Context; Conclusions; Mathematics Performance and Social Difference; Social Class Differences; Conceptual Map and Research Questions ; Survey and Modelling Results for Gender Differences in PerformanceSurvey and Modelling Results for Social Class Differences in Performance; Conclusions; Affect and Mathematics Anxiety; Affect and Anxiety; Psychological Conceptions and Measures of Anxiety; Mathematics Anxiety, Measures and Relationships; Model A: Conceptual Map and Research Questions; Survey and Modelling Results: Contexts of Mathematics Anxiety; Survey and Modelling Results: Social Differences and Mathematics Anxiety; Survey and Modelling Results: Mathematics Anxiety and Performance; Conclusions ; Reflections on the Study So FarRethinking the Context of Mathematical Thinking; A Range of Views on the Meanings of Context and the Possibilities of Transfer; The Turn to the Social: Sociocultural Approaches and Situated Cognition; The Turn to Language: Structuralist and Poststructuralist Approaches; Conceptualising Contexts, Practices, Boundaries and Bridges; Conclusions; Rethinking Mathematical Affect as Emotion; 'No Emotion, Please! We're Researching Mathematics'; Model B: Process Conceptions of Affect and Anxiety in Mathematics; Model C: Approaches Informed by Psychoanalysis ; Model D: A Psychoanalytic Approach, Informed by PoststructuralismConclusions; Developing a Complementary Qualitative Methodology; Focus and Methodology of the Interview; Doing the Interviews; Overview of the Analysis of the Interviews; Summary; Reconsidering Mathematical Thinking and Emotion in Practice; Theme 2: Inseparability of Task and Context; Theme 3: Gender and Social Class Differences in Performance Related to Positioning; Theme 4: Numerate Thinking as Specific to the Subject's Positioning; Theme 5: Emotion Pervades Mathematical Thinking 'Mathematics is Hot' ; Theme 6: Gender Differences in Expressing AnxietyConclusions; The Learners' Stories; Case Studies; Conclusions; Conclusions and Contributions; Ideas for Pedagogy and Practice; Questions of Methodology and Further Research; Appendix 1 Questionnaire Design and Fieldwork; Fieldwork; The Questionnaire; Appendix 2 Interview Problems for Solution; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The crisis around teaching and learning of mathematics and its use in everyday life and work relate to a number of issues. These include: The doubtful transferability of school maths to real life contexts, the declining participation in A level and higher education maths courses, the apparent exclusion of some groups, such as women and the aversion of many people to maths. This book addresses these issues by considering a number of key problems in maths education and numeracy:*differences among social groups, especially those related to gender and social class*the inseparability of cog
• Titolo autorizzato: Adult's mathematical thinking and emotions
• ISBN: 1-135-70190-3; 1-135-70191-1; 0-203-18589-7; 1-282-77798-X; 9786612777981
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777375103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in mathematics education series ; ; 16.