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SUMMARY:Analysing Abstraction in English and Taiwanese Secondary Mathemati
 cs Textbooks - Dr Kai-Lin Yang\, National Taiwan Normal University and Uni
 versity of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Ann Waterman
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I will outline an emergent analytical framework \
 , an adaptation of Orit Hazzan's three perspectives on abstraction\, for u
 se in analysing textbooks. The three perspectives ares described as famili
 arity\, operationality and simplificability. Familiarity refers to the ext
 ent to which didantic materials reflect that which is already understood b
 y the learner\; operationality refers to the extent didantic materials pro
 vide scaffolding support\; and simplificability  refers to the extent to w
 hich didantic materials exploit transformations. The framework has been us
 ed on English and Taiwanese textbooks to examine the extent to which abstr
 action \, as a mathematical process \, is supported.
LOCATION:Room 205\, Mary Allan Building\, Homerton College\, Hills Road\, 
 Cambridge CB2 8PQ
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