Having some trouble with writing mathematics paper about “what doing math looks and feels like to you”
Formal Essay: Write a 1-4 page essay based on the prompt above; include your math verb and its definition. Your essay should be 1.5-2 line spaced, written in 10-12pt Times New Roman with 1-inch margins.
PURPOSE
The purpose of this assignment is to have you reflect on your personal practice of mathematics. In particular, you should focus on what doing math looks and feels like to you. Begin by reading the three blurbs below. The instructions and writing prompt will follow.
READING 1: From Chapter 1. Mathematics as Language in Kenney, Joan M., et al. “Literacy Strategies for Improving Mathematics Instruction.” ASCD (2005).
There are over 4,000 languages and dialects in the world, and all of them share one thing in common: they have a category for words representing nouns, or objects, and a category for words representing verbs, or actions. Taking this commonality as a starting point provides an interesting way of looking at the mathematical world and its language. It is possible to identify both content and process dimensions in mathematics, but unlike many disciplines, in which process refers to general reasoning and logic skills, in mathematics the term refers to skills that are domain-specific. As a result, people tend to lump content and process together when discussing mathematics, calling it all mathematics content. However, it is vitally important to maintain a distinction between mathematical content and process, because the distinction reflects something very significant about the way humans approach mental activity of any sort. All human languages have grammatical structures that distinguish between nouns and verbs; these structures express the distinction between the objects themselves and the actions carried out by or on the objects.
A model first proposed by the Balanced Assessment Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (Schwartz & Kenney, 1995) suggests that we think about mathematical nouns, or objects, as being numbers, measurements, shapes, spaces, functions, patterns, data, and arrangements—items that comfortably map onto commonly accepted mathematics content strands. Mathematical verbs may be regarded as the four predominant actions that we ascribe to problem- solving and reasoning:
• Modeling and formulating. Creating appropriate representations and rela- tionships to mathematize the original problem.
• Transforming and manipulating. Changing the mathematical form in which a problem is originally expressed to equivalent forms that represent solutions.
• Inferring. Applying derived results to the original problem situation, and interpreting and generalizing the results in that light.
• Communicating. Reporting what has been learned about a problem to a specified audience.
READING 2: From page V in Barta, James, et al. “Math is a verb: Activities and lessons from cultures around the world.” Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2014.
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