Using Code-Switching as a Tool for Learning Mathematical Language.

Zazkis, Rina

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ERIC Number: EJ627182

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2000

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Using Code-Switching as a Tool for Learning Mathematical Language.

Zazkis, Rina

For the Learning of Mathematics, v20 n3 p38-43 Nov 2000

Reflects on four years of teaching a course called Principle of Major Teachers for pre-service elementary school teachers. Identifies and describes the discord between their formal mathematical knowledge and their informal language used in the context of elementary number theory. Presents encouraging results from a code-switching experiment. (Contains 15 references.) (ASK)

Descriptors: Elementary Education, Higher Education, Informal Education, Language, Mathematics Education, Number Concepts, Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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