PROCEEDINGS OF THE 15TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION (Vol 2)
2012
Portland, Oregon
Mathematical Activity for Teaching
Page: 2-467
This work aims to establish a new theoretical construct, mathematical activity for teaching, and to investigate relationships between students’ mathematical activity, mathematical activity for teaching, and teacher’s instructional moves. Mathematical activity for teaching refers to the mathematical activity teachers engage in as they work to support students’ mathematical activity. This construct represents one component of the Mathematical Activity for Teaching Cycle, a conceptual framework that guided my analysis of classroom interactions between mathematicians and their abstract algebra students. Through this analysis I was able to exemplify each component of the Mathematical Activity for Teaching framework and begin to identify relationships between teachers’ mathematical activity and those of their students’.