Research Article

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

Table 3

Counting the book characters and the quantity of objects.

No.NameSocial interactionDiscourse movesMathematicisingParticipatory approach

1teacherI have a great puzzle for you, look how many ducks there are in the picturequestioningattention to quantities
2Inkaone, two, three, four, five,countingnumber sequencingpoints to each one, one by one, and counts orally
3Anttifirst Selmatutoringgiving participatory turn
4Selmaone, two, three, fourcountingone-to-one correspondence between a number and the quantitypoints to each one, one by one, and counts orally
5Anttithen metutoringgiving participatory turn
6InkaI should, onecountingsuggesting participatory turn
7AnttiI have to, one, two, three, fourone-to-one correspondence between a number and quantitytaking a participatory turn