RUME 28
2026
Alexandria, Virginia
A Bustling Inquiry-Oriented Math Environment: Who is Present and What is Happening?
Page: 1389
Inquiry-oriented (IO) instruction is grounded in constructivist theories, which provide the foundation for realizing its transformative potential in supporting students’ cognitive growth. However, given the dynamic nature of IO environments and learners, there is a need to delve more into the different ways learning can occur in this space to engage in thoughtful classroom design. This poster explores a researcher’s relationship with data to recognize the material world that facilitates learning in an IO classroom. New materialist and post-representationist approaches were employed while engaging with two sessions of a video-taped IO class to evoke new wonderings about IO instruction. The poster presentation will share observations from the IO class sessions. Instead of presenting “traditional” qualitative research findings, these observations will be accompanied by wonderings that could inspire reformulation of theories for IO classrooms.