Children as Mathematicians: The Interplay between Discourse Structure, Mathematicising, and the Participatory Approach

Table 2

Joint big book reading and mathematicising (videotaped in the autumn term 2007).

No.	name	Social interaction	Discourse moves	Mathematicising	Participatory approach
1	teacher	how many ducks do you see there	questioning	attention to quantities
4	Elli	yes I know how to count; yes I know how to count	initiating		evaluation
5	Kalle	nonverbal participation	continuing		touches ducks one by one
6	Inka	nonverbal participation
7	Elli	you do not count like that; you do not count like that	commenting		evaluation
8	Antti	can I count	questioning
9	teacher	now it is Kalle’s turn to count	tutoring
10	Elli	one, two, three, four, five	counting	one-to-one correspondence between a number and the quantity	points to each duck one by one and counts orally
11	teacher	okay	accepting
12	Inka	one	continuing