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SUMMARY:Specialised mathematics discourse and doing mathematics: what diff
 erence does a word make? - Candia Morgan\, Institute of Education\, Univer
 sity of London
DTSTART:20141029T170000Z
DTEND:20141029T183000Z
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CONTACT:Ann Waterman
DESCRIPTION:The project "The Evolution of School Mathematics\nDiscourse" d
 eveloped a framework for analysing the discourse of GCSE\nexamination ques
 tions\, founded in the theoretical assumption that\nmathematical activity 
 involves engagement in mathematical forms of\ndiscourse and hence that dif
 ferences in the discourse in which\nstudents are expected to engage can be
  interpreted as differences in\ntheir mathematical activity. Students were
  asked to answer questions\nwritten using forms of language found in exami
 nations from different\nyears. In this seminar I will present some of the 
 results of this\ninvestigation\, focusing in particular on student respons
 es to\nquestions with different degrees of specialisation.\n
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, MAB Ro
 om  205
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