Studying mathematics learning in collective activity

@article{citeulike:410081, abstract = {This paper describes a study of the interplay between social and developmental processes in children's mathematics learning. The focus is on children's play of an educational game, Treasure Hunt, and the way children's interactions in play frame developmental processes involving arithmetic with base-10 blocks. Sixty-four third and fourth graders were grouped in same- and mixed-grade dyads. Analyses of interactions revealed that players were frequently involved with jointly structuring arithmetical problems involving base-10 blocks. However, the arithmetical goals that members of dyads created often differed as labor became divided in their activity. Two findings were of particular interest: (1) differences in divisions of labor as a function of players' grades and grades of their opponents led to construction of different arithmetical goals, and (2) differences in goals led to different sequences in children's strategic developments, sequences that differed from the developmental trajectory in our matched controls.}, author = {Saxe, Geoffrey B. and Guberman, Steven R. }, citeulike-article-id = {410081}, doi = {10.1016/S0959-4752(98)00037-1}, journal = {Learning and Instruction}, keywords = {activity, collaborative, collective, ethnography, ethnomathematics, learning, mathematics, sociocognative, sociocutural}, month = {December}, number = {6}, pages = {489--501}, posted-at = {2005-11-28 15:49:09}, priority = {2}, title = {Studying mathematics learning in collective activity}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0959-4752(98)00037-1}, volume = {8}, year = {1998} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:410081 L3 - citeulike-article-id:410081 TI - Studying mathematics learning in collective activity JF - Learning and Instruction VL - 8 IS - 6 SP - 489 EP - 501 N2 - This paper describes a study of the interplay between social and developmental processes in children's mathematics learning. The focus is on children's play of an educational game, Treasure Hunt, and the way children's interactions in play frame developmental processes involving arithmetic with base-10 blocks. Sixty-four third and fourth graders were grouped in same- and mixed-grade dyads. Analyses of interactions revealed that players were frequently involved with jointly structuring arithmetical problems involving base-10 blocks. However, the arithmetical goals that members of dyads created often differed as labor became divided in their activity. Two findings were of particular interest: (1) differences in divisions of labor as a function of players' grades and grades of their opponents led to construction of different arithmetical goals, and (2) differences in goals led to different sequences in children's strategic developments, sequences that differed from the developmental trajectory in our matched controls. KW - activity KW - collaborative KW - collective KW - ethnography KW - ethnomathematics KW - learning KW - mathematics KW - sociocognative KW - sociocutural AU - Saxe, Geoffrey AU - Guberman, Steven PY - 1998/12// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0959-4752(98)00037-1 ER -