
Understanding Emotions in Mathematical Thinking and Learning
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Key Features
- Covers methodologies in studying emotion in mathematical knowledge
- Reflects the diverse and innovative nature of the methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks proposed by current investigations of emotions and mathematical cognition
- Includes perspectives from cognitive experimental psychology, neuroscience, and from sociocultural, semiotic, and discursive approaches
- Explores the role of anxiety in mathematical learning
- Synthesizes unifies the work of multiple sub-disciplines in one place
Readership
Academics/researchers, graduate and undergraduate students specializing in the following disciplines: cognitive psychology; infant cognition; cognitive neuroscience; behavioral genetics; educational psychology; early childhood education; and special education
Table of Contents
PART I INTRODUCTION: AN OVERVIEW OF THE FIELD
1 – An Overview of the Growth and Trends of Current Research on Emotions and Mathematics
Ulises Xolocotzin
Chapter 2 - Appraising Emotion in Mathematical Knowledge: Reflections on Methodology
Inés Mª Gómez-ChacónPART II COGNITION AND EMOTION IN MATHEMATICAL ACTIVITY
Chapter 3 - Being in Control
Alexandre Borovik
Chapter 4 – Epistemic States of Convincement: A Conceptualization from the Practice of Mathematicians and Neurobiology
Rigo-Lemini Mirela and Benjamín Martínez-Navarro
Chapter 5 – The Impact of Anxiety and Working Memory on Algebraic Reasoning
Kelly Trezise and Robert A ReevePART III EMOTIONS IN THE LEARNING AND TEACHNING OF MATHEMATICS
PART IIIA LEARNERS IN DIFFERENT EDUCATIONAL LEVELS
Chapter 6 - Students’ Emotional Experiences Learning Mathematics in Canadian Schools
Jo Towers, Miwa Aoki Takeuchi, Jennifer Hall, and Lyndon C. Martin
Chapter 7 - "I did Use to Like Maths…": Emotional Changes Towards Mathematics During Secondary School Education
Paul Hernandez-Martinez and Maria Pampaka
Chapter 8 - When Being Good at Math Is Not Enough: How Students’ Beliefs About the Nature of Mathematics Impact Decisions to Pursue Optional Math Education
Michelle Hurst & Sara CordesPART IIIB LEARNERS WITH MATHEMATICAL DIFFICULTIES
Chapter 9 - Special Needs in Mathematics Classrooms: Relationships with Others
Melissa Rodd
Chapter 10 - The Construct Mathematical Resilience
Clare Lee, Sue Johnston-WilderPART IIIC LEARNERS OUT OF THE SCHOOL
Chapter 11 - The Emotions Experienced While Learning Mathematics at Home
Janet Goodall, Sue Johnston-Wilder, and Rosemary Russell
Chapter 12 - Parents’ and Children’s Mathematics Anxiety
Sophie Batchelor, Camilla Gilmore & Matthew InglisPART IIID MATHEMATICS TEACHERS
Chapter 13 - ‘I Hate Maths’: Changing Primary School Teachers’ Relationship with Mathematics
Mike Askew and Hamsa Venkat
Chapter 14 - Using Students’ Emotional Experiences to Guide Task Design in Mathematics Content Courses
Kelli M. Slaten and Sarah E. IvesPART IV THEORETICAL ADVANCES
Chapter 15 - Digging Beneath Dual Systems Theory and the Bicameral Brain: Abductions About the Human Psyche from Experience in Mathematical Problem Solving
John Mason & Martina Metz
Chapter 16 - On the Irreducibility of Acting, Emoting, and Thinking: A Societal-Historical Approach to Affect in Mathematical Activity
Wolff-Michael Roth and Margaret Walshaw
Chapter 17 - Emotional Orientations and Somatic Markers: Expertise and Decision-Making in the Mathematics Classroom
David Reid, Laurinda Brown, and Tracy Helliwell
Product details
- No. of pages: 474
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2017
- Published: May 12, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128024898
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128022184
About the Editor
Ulises Xolocotzin
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