Delta-K,  Teaching Ideas,  Volume 50, Issue 2

Getting Conversation into the Mathematics Classroom

Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association

Volume 50 Issue 2, March 2013

80 – 84

Getting Conversation into the Mathematics Classroom: Essential, but Formidable – Perhaps “A Bridge Too Far”?

Werner Liedtke

The parts of this conclusion include selected comments about the importance of conversation; a glance at students’ abilities to communicate mathematically in the past; observational data and selected opinions intended to illustrate possible difficulties that may be encountered while trying to get conversation into the classroom to foster ability to communicate and reason mathematically; and an attempt to look back from the future.