{"product_id":"toward-an-anthropology-of-graphing-w-m-roth-9781402013744","title":"Toward an Anthropology of Graphing: Semiotic and Activity-Theoretic Perspectives","description":"During the summer of 1990, while taking my holidays to teach a university course of physics for elementary teachers, I also tutored one of the tenth-grade students at my school in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. In return for working with him for free, I had requested permission to audiotape our sessions; I wanted to use the transcripts as data sources for a chapter that I had been in- vited to write. It so happened that I discovered and read Jean Lave's Cognition in Practice that very summer, which inspired me to read other books on mathe- matics in everyday situations. Two years later, while conducting a study with my teacher colleague G. Michael Bowen on eighth-grade students' learning during an open-inquiry ecology unit, I discovered these students' tremendous data analysis skills that appeared to be a function of the deep familiarity with the objects and events that they had studied and mathematized earlier in the unit. I reported my findings in two articles, 'Mathematization of experience in a grade 8 open-inquiry environment: An introduction to the representational practices of science' and 'Where is the context in contextual word problems?: Mathematical practices and products in Grade 8 students' answers to story problems'. I Begin- ning with that study, I developed a research agenda that focused on mathemati- cal knowing in science and science-related professions. During the early 1990s, I was also interested in the notion of authentic practice as a metaphor for planning school science curriculum.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e W. M. Roth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1402013744\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781402013744\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.18h x 7.18w x 0.78d","brand":"W. M. Roth","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47424302809343,"sku":"9781402013744","price":109.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_466ac88e-e1ce-461a-b6e7-faa1fd195994.jpg?v=1761529454","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/toward-an-anthropology-of-graphing-w-m-roth-9781402013744","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}