Reflecting the cultures and languages in Swedish Mathematics classrooms
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Norén, Eva, Rönnberg, Irene y Rönnberg, Lennart.
Resumen
In Stockholm and its suburban schools there are approximately 35 % minorities or immigrant students, in some schools up to 98 %. Their origins are from different countries and together they speak more than 100 diverse languages. Over a period of time there has been a change of attitude in Swedish suburban schools regarding which language of instruction to use in mathematics education. Since long time mathematics teachers are supposed to vary teaching of mathematics in a conceptual discourse including ways of communicating mathematics in the classrooms, using problem solving as a base for understanding. According to the curriculum Swedish mathematics teachers are supposed to contrast the teaching of mathematics in relation to their students' earlier informal mathematical experiences and their communities. Today some schools in suburban Stockholm have started immense or smaller projects teaching mathematics using student’s mother tongues as languages of instruction. The teachers are bilingual themselves, having immigrant backgrounds and most of their education in their countries of origin. As the teachers have the same language and cultural background as their students we assume them to use code-switching and ethnomathematic perspectives as tools for teaching and learning mathematics. We expect all teachers to consider students first languages as resources for constructing mathematical knowledge and communicating mathematically.
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2006
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Estado publicación
Términos clave
Comprensión | Discurso | Etnomatemática | Reflexión sobre la enseñanza | Resolución de problemas | Situado sociocultural
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Nivel educativo
Educación media, bachillerato, secundaria superior (16 a 18 años) | Educación secundaria básica (12 a 16 años)
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Domite, Maria | Gorgorió, Núria | Liblik, Ana Maria | Martins, Berlane | Poisard, Caroline
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Domite, Maria, Gorgorió, Nuria, Liblik, Ana Maria, Martins, Berlane y Poisard, Caroline
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1 - 9
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