Thinking as communicating
Subtitle: the development of mathematical discourse
By: Anna Sfard.
Series: Learning in doing
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521867375
Subjects: Mathematics -- Language; Thought and thinking
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Puzzling about (mathematical) thinking; title: Objectification; title: Commognition : thinking as communicating; title: Thinking in language; title: Mathematics as a form of communication; title: Objects of mathematical discourse : what mathematizing is all about; title: Routines : how we mathematize; title: Explorations, deeds, and rituals : what we mathematize for; title: Looking back and ahead : solving old quandaries and facing new ones.