Students' perceptions of Norms in a reformed classroom

Richard Wester (1) , Anna Wernberg (1) , Tamsin Meaney (2)

1 Malmö Högskola = Malmö University
2 Bergen University College

This paper explores tensions between the teacher's intention and the students' interpretation of a reformed classroom practice. Focus for this paper is particular on the social and socio-mathematical norms. The example presented in the paper is connected to the use of resources, such as manipulatives, to catch both explicit and implicit tensions between the students' perceptions of existing norms and teacher´s intention of supporting norms. These tensions could form and cause a barrier to students' opportunities to learn. Reform teaching is likely to fail if students do not share a similar understanding to that of their teacher in regards to their contribution to mathematics learning.

Mots clés: Reformed teaching; tensions; social norms; socio-mathematical norms; students' perspective

Domaines: Education; Histoire et perspectives sur les mathématiques [math.HO]

Richard Wester, Anna Wernberg, Tamsin Meaney. Students' perceptions of Norms in a reformed classroom. CERME 9 - Ninth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Education; ERME, Feb 2015, Prague, Czech Republic. pp.3150-3156. ⟨hal-01289822⟩