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Toward an Anthropology of Graphing

Semiotic and Activity-Theoretic Perspectives

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  1. Wolff-Michael Roth

    1. University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Toward an Anthropology of Graphing

    1. Toward an Anthropology of Graphing

      • Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 1-21

  3. Graphing in Captivity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. From ‘Expertise’ to Situated Reason

      • Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 25-67

    3. Unfolding Interpretations

      • Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 69-101

    4. Problematic Readings

      • Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 103-145

    5. Articulating Background

      • Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 147-183

  4. Graphing in the Wild

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
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    2. Reading Graphs

      • Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 187-220

    3. From Writhing Lizards to Graphs

      • Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 221-266

    4. Fusion of Sign and Referent

      • Wolff-Michael Roth
      Pages 267-309

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 311-342
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About this book

During the summer of 1990, while taking my holidays to teach a university course of physics for elementary teachers, I also tutored one of the tenth-grade students at my school in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. In return for working with him for free, I had requested permission to audiotape our sessions; I wanted to use the transcripts as data sources for a chapter that I had been in­ vited to write. It so happened that I discovered and read Jean Lave's Cognition in Practice that very summer, which inspired me to read other books on mathe­ matics in everyday situations. Two years later, while conducting a study with my teacher colleague G. Michael Bowen on eighth-grade students' learning during an open-inquiry ecology unit, I discovered these students' tremendous data analysis skills that appeared to be a function of the deep familiarity with the objects and events that they had studied and mathematized earlier in the unit. I reported my findings in two articles, 'Mathematization of experience in a grade 8 open-inquiry environment: An introduction to the representational practices of science' and 'Where is the context in contextual word problems?: Mathematical practices and products in Grade 8 students' answers to story problems'. I Begin­ ning with that study, I developed a research agenda that focused on mathemati­ cal knowing in science and science-related professions. During the early 1990s, I was also interested in the notion of authentic practice as a metaphor for planning school science curriculum.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

    Wolff-Michael Roth

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Toward an Anthropology of Graphing

  • Book Subtitle: Semiotic and Activity-Theoretic Perspectives

  • Authors: Wolff-Michael Roth

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0223-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1374-4Published: 31 July 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1376-8Published: 31 July 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0223-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 342

  • Topics: Mathematics Education, Science Education, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Science

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