Communication and Academic Vocabulary in Mathematics: A Content Analysis of Prompts Eliciting Written Responses in Two Elementary Mathematics Textbooks

The purpose of this study was to investigate how writing in mathematics is treated in one 4th grade National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded mathematics textbook titled Everyday Mathematics and one publisher-generated textbook titled enVision MATH. The developed framework provided categories to sup...

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Main Author: Joseph, Christine M.
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2012
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Online Access:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4344
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5540&context=etd