Adults' mathematical thinking and emotions : a study of numerate practices / Jeff Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Jeff, 1944-

Series:

Studies in mathematics education series ; 16.

Studies in mathematics education series ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Study and teaching (Continuing education)--Psychological aspects.

Mathematics.

Adult learning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge/Falmer, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The crisis around teaching and learning of mathematics and its use in everyday life and work relate to a number of issues. These include: The doubtful transferability of school maths to real life contexts, the declining participation in A level and higher education maths courses, the apparent exclusion of some groups, such as women and the aversion of many people to maths. This book addresses these issues by considering a number of key problems in maths education and numeracy:*differences among social groups, especially those related to gender and social class*the inseparability of cog

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Series Editor's Preface; Author's Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Mathematics, the Difficult Subject; Developing Ideas and Methodologies for the Study; Overview of the Book; Mathematical Thinking in Context Among Adults; Recent British Surveys of Adult Numeracy; Conceptual Map and Research Questions; Survey Results for Performance and Context; Conclusions; Mathematics Performance and Social Difference; Social Class Differences; Conceptual Map and Research Questions

Survey and Modelling Results for Gender Differences in PerformanceSurvey and Modelling Results for Social Class Differences in Performance; Conclusions; Affect and Mathematics Anxiety; Affect and Anxiety; Psychological Conceptions and Measures of Anxiety; Mathematics Anxiety, Measures and Relationships; Model A: Conceptual Map and Research Questions; Survey and Modelling Results: Contexts of Mathematics Anxiety; Survey and Modelling Results: Social Differences and Mathematics Anxiety; Survey and Modelling Results: Mathematics Anxiety and Performance; Conclusions

Reflections on the Study So FarRethinking the Context of Mathematical Thinking; A Range of Views on the Meanings of Context and the Possibilities of Transfer; The Turn to the Social: Sociocultural Approaches and Situated Cognition; The Turn to Language: Structuralist and Poststructuralist Approaches; Conceptualising Contexts, Practices, Boundaries and Bridges; Conclusions; Rethinking Mathematical Affect as Emotion; 'No Emotion, Please! We're Researching Mathematics'; Model B: Process Conceptions of Affect and Anxiety in Mathematics; Model C: Approaches Informed by Psychoanalysis

Model D: A Psychoanalytic Approach, Informed by PoststructuralismConclusions; Developing a Complementary Qualitative Methodology; Focus and Methodology of the Interview; Doing the Interviews; Overview of the Analysis of the Interviews; Summary; Reconsidering Mathematical Thinking and Emotion in Practice; Theme 2: Inseparability of Task and Context; Theme 3: Gender and Social Class Differences in Performance Related to Positioning; Theme 4: Numerate Thinking as Specific to the Subject's Positioning; Theme 5: Emotion Pervades Mathematical Thinking 'Mathematics is Hot'

Theme 6: Gender Differences in Expressing AnxietyConclusions; The Learners' Stories; Case Studies; Conclusions; Conclusions and Contributions; Ideas for Pedagogy and Practice; Questions of Methodology and Further Research; Appendix 1 Questionnaire Design and Fieldwork; Fieldwork; The Questionnaire; Appendix 2 Interview Problems for Solution; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-70190-3

1-135-70191-1

0-203-18589-7

1-282-77798-X

9786612777981

9780203185896

OCLC:

228039962