Build Connections Between Mathematics and Other Practices¶

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Description¶

The author's recommendation that "mathematics education researchers need to build connections between mathematics and other practices" in order to humanize mathematics and make it normal and ordinary. She argues that boundary crossing between the mathematics education and informal education communities bridges in-school and out-of-school mathematics, with each community contributing different expertise to the other.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Mathematics educators support identifying and making mathematics explicit in STEM integration.
• Informal educators contribute expertise to bring excitement and engagement to mathematics learning.

Constraints¶

• The article says the informal emphasis on fun can be potentially disruptive to the seriousness assumed to be essential in learning mathematics.

Target Learners¶

• Mathematics education researchers and informal educators
• Historically underserved students in mathematics

Target Learning Objectives¶

• Seeing mathematics as normal human practice rather than mandatory

Claims¶

Related Principles¶

• Informal Learning
• Humanizing Mathematics As Boundary Blurring

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Lili Zhou. (2023). Humanizing Mathematics through Boundary Crossing Collaboration. Proceedings of the forty-fifth annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Vol. 2). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED658339