As part of an intervention project to encourage exploratory talk with young children in mathematics, it was found that, although the children did not engage fully in reasoning, the intervention had supported some children in developing more cohesive discourse. The cohesion was evidenced through the children's use of deictic words, in particular the word 'that'. Examples of dialogue are contrasted to illustrate the changes in this use of deixis and are related to children's meaning-making in mathematics.
History
Publication title
Proceedings of the 36th annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia
Editors
V Steinle, L Ball, C Bardini
Pagination
538-545
ISBN
978 0 7340 4844 8
Department/School
Faculty of Education
Publisher
Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia
Place of publication
Australia
Event title
The 36th annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia