RUME 14 (Volume 4)
2011
Portland, Oregon
CONCEPTUAL WRITING AND ITS IMPACT ON PERFORMANCE AND ATTITUDE
Page: 136
There is an abundance of recommendations and articles that extol the virtues of writing in the mathematics classroom. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics encouraged mathematical communication in its 1989 Standards for School Mathematics and again in its update of the Standards (2000). The Mathematical Association of America (2004) underscored the need for developing communication skills in mathematics and was joined by a host of other countries that encouraged writing (Ntenza, 2006). Yet, with twenty years of advocacy by researchers and policy-makers, very few students have experience with mathematical writing when they come to college (Borasi & Rose, 1989; Ntenza, 2006, Pugalee, 2004).