About real-world contexts in mathematics education and their impact on language and learning
Résumé
In mathematics education real-world contexts are frequently used to catch the students` attention and to foster their understanding of the learning content. Presumably, especially in primary school they are used with the aim of building bridges between the familiar 'everyday world' of the students and the more formal and abstract 'world of mathematics'. The presented study questions the meaningfulness of real-world contexts in mathematics lessons in primary school and reveals some limitations of them. Interactional analyses of selected passages of mathematics lessons will illustrate some scenes with real-world contexts and their impact on language use and the opportunities to learn.
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