RE: personalizing voice

From: Peter Moxhay (moxhap@portlandschools.org)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2003 - 10:10:05 PDT


Jay wrote:

> I wonder if anyone here can identify math textbooks or curricula that do
> stimulate more of the kind of dialogue Eugene is talking about, where
> students can take critical stances toward mathematical inquiry and its
> relationship to other aspects of social life?

Davydov's mathematics curriculum for the primary grades is an
interesting example of an inquiry-based curriculum, though it is
certainly not of the "math and society" type. It seems to me, though,
that it provides ample scope for the "personalized voices" of students:
the primary form of classroom interaction is whole-class discussion in
which the contributions of all participants, including the teacher, are
evaluated on an equal basis. It develops children's critical stances
towards mathematics to a very high level, though probably not in
the same sense as people have been discussing here.

Peter



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