Research Article
Children as Mathematicians: The Interplay between Discourse Structure, Mathematicising, and the Participatory Approach
Table 5
Mathematicising during the Mayday holiday period, videotaped in spring term 2009.
| No. | Name | Social interaction | Discourse moves | Mathematicising | Participatory approach |
| 6 | visiting-teacher | okay so how many go here | questioning | attention to quantity | | 7 | Elli | six | answering | | subitising | 8 | Inka | one, two, three, four, five, six | counting | One-to-one correspondence between a number and quantity | | 9 | visiting-teacher | if four go here and six go here, so how many altogether | questioning | attention to quantity | | 10 | Inka | one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten | counting | One-to-one correspondence between a number and quantity | counting the first five dips in a ten-egg carton and then the second five dips | 11 | visiting-teacher | okay good, what about, there are balloons there, so how many are there, it has been marked with a (written) number, can you find it | questioning | | | 12 | Elli | eight | answering | recognising a written symbol for quantity | | 13 | visiting-teacher | okay | accepting | | |
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