Using Transactional Reading Strategies to Support Sense-Making and Discussion in Mathematics Classrooms: An Exploratory Study

Borasi, Raffaělla; Siegel, Marjorie; Fonzi, Judith; Smith, Constance F.

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“…Numerous researchers argue that reading is a unique mode of learning essential for mathematics understanding (e.g., Bishop 1988;Siegel and Borasi 1992;Borasi et al 1998). Writing in mathematics similarly deepens mathematical understanding and extends thinking by sustaining students' development of reasoning, communication and connections (e.g., Shepard 1993;Grossman et al 1993;Drake and Amspaugh 1994;Doherty 1996;Porter and Massingila 2000).…”

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Promoting Numeracy in an Online College Algebra Course through Projects and Discussions

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2015

Numeracy

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This research stems from efforts to infuse quantitative literacy (QL) in an online version of college algebra. College algebra fulfills a QL requirement at many universities, and it is a terminal course for most who take it. In light of the course's traditional content and teaching methods, students often leave with little gained in QL. An online platform provides a unique means of engaging students in quantitative discussions and research, yet little research exists on online courses in the context of QL. The course studied included weekly news discussions as well as "messy" projects requiring data analysis. Students in online and face-to-face sections of the course took the Quantitative Literacy and Reasoning Assessment ( QLRA; developed by members of the National Numeracy Network) during the first and final weeks of the fall 2014 semester. There were significant statistical gains in the online students' QLRA performance and mathematical affect but none for the face-toface students. Notwithstanding limitations of the study, the results support the notion that project-based learning in an online environment is a promising strategy for promoting QL in terminal math courses.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Promoting Numeracy in an Online College Algebra Course through Projects and Discussions

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2015

Numeracy

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“…The author asserts that transaction applies to individuals' relations to one another, whether in the family, the classroom, the school or in the broader society and culture. Borasi et al (1998), in their exploratory research study pointed out that Rosenblatt chose the term transaction to call attention to the way in which the reader and the text shape and are shaped by each other during the reading event.…”

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“…Research on reading has included a variety of issues such as children's stories reading (Belton, 2000); sense-making and reading difficulty (Thomas and Davies, 1997); reading transactions with math texts (Borasi et al, 1998) among others. However, research on the dialogic transactions that take place through reading as a situated social practice among participants of a reading club has not been found in my search so far.…”

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Creating reading clubs that foster resiliency: Theoretical foundations

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2017

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Abstract. This article presents a discussion on current theoretical trends that consider reading as a literacy social practice and resiliency as a building process. The concepts explored in this paper are central part of the theoretical and research based foundations of a literacy proposal conducted to identify resiliency building processes through dialogic experiences generated after reading events. The core concepts to be discussed in this article constitute the basis for the creation of a reading club viewed as an alternative to contribute to the education of individuals as social, resilient readers. Reading in this proposal is understood as a situated social literacy practice in which reading transactions and readers' response, critical pedagogy, and processes of resiliency building play a central role in the development of the reading club.Keywords. Reading club, reading as a situated social practice, reading transactions, resiliency building and critical pedagogy.Resumen. Este artículo presenta los principios teóricos más recientes que consideran la lectura como una práctica social alfabetizadora, y la resiliencia como un proceso de construcción. Los conceptos explorados en este documento son parte central de los fundamentos teóricos que orientan una propuesta alfabetizadora desarrollada para identificar procesos de resiliencia a través de experiencias dialógicas generadas en encuentros de lectura. Así, los conceptos por discutir en este documento constituyen la base para la creación de un club de lectura visto como un programa alternativo que contribuye a la educación de individuos como lectores sociales resilientes. La lectura en esta propuesta se asume como una práctica social situada alfabetizadora, donde la transacción y respuesta a la lectura, la pedagogía crítica y los procesos de construcción de resiliencia son centrales en el desarrollo del club.Palabras clave. Club de lectura, la lectura como una práctica social situada, transacción y respuesta a la lectura, construcción de resiliencia y pedagogía crítica.

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“…The focus is then on examining how the four comprehension strategies mentioned above which relate to deep level strategies that can contribute to support the students' comprehension skills on a deeper level, which is necessary for being able to reasoning. These four strategies have previously been used in mathematics education to support students' reasoning competence connected to specific problem-solving tasks with positive results (Borasi et al 1998;Huber, 2010). But, the strategies have not been explored further connected to students' ways of explaining and describing mathematical phenomena such as the meaning of ideas, concepts, operations and processes as they evolve in specific mathematical tasks, where the textbook will be the baseline for this study.…”

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“…However, in previous research in school mathematics, the reasoning strategies in the Reciprocal Teaching model (Huber, 2010;Quirk, 2010) and Transactional Strategy instructions (Borasi et al, 1998) have been used to support students' problem solving competence in school mathematics. In the next section, these studies are further discussed, as they can provide more insight into the present research study.…”

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Supporting mathematical reasoning through reading and writing in mathematics : making the implicit explicit

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Using Transactional Reading Strategies to Support Sense-Making and Discussion in Mathematics Classrooms: An Exploratory Study

Cited by 34 publications

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Promoting Numeracy in an Online College Algebra Course through Projects and Discussions

Promoting Numeracy in an Online College Algebra Course through Projects and Discussions

Creating reading clubs that foster resiliency: Theoretical foundations

Supporting mathematical reasoning through reading and writing in mathematics : making the implicit explicit

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