What Do Children Learn When They Do Math?

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Abstract

Using Eisner's article "What Do Children Learn When They Paint" as inspiration, this paper explores how mathematics is co-constructed with self and world. Drawing on a poststructural framework, the paper theorizes: Mathematics is part of children's knowing and being. Mathematical thinking is integral to children's perception and experienced reality. Children's mathematical theorizing continually (re)defines objects and language.

Author

• Wade Tillett, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater