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