PROCEEDINGS OF THE 19TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2016
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Colloquial mathematics in mathematics lectures
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In this poster, we focus on mathematics professors’ use of colloquial mathematics where they express mathematical ideas using informal English. We analyzed 80-minute lectures in advanced mathematics from 11 different mathematics professors. We identified each instance where mathematicians expressed a mathematical idea using informal language. In the poster, we use this as a basis to present categories of the metaphorical images that professors use to help students comprehend the mathematics that they are teaching.