Research Article

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

Table 6

Mathematical story for the visual model.

No.NameSocial interactionDiscourse moveMathematicisingParticipatory approach

6KalleI have fourinitiatingone to one correspondence between a digit and quantitymathematical story telling
7visiting-teacheryes, and what about that, thencommenting
8Kalleif I added six it would make I do not knowcontinuingaddition task
9visiting-teacheryes you said that you have four, and if you add six it will make tenextending
10visiting-teacherokay good Inkainitiating
11InkaI have here sixcontinuingsubitising
12visiting-teacheryes, will you tell us something elsequestioning
13Inkanooextending
14visiting-teacherit is a good story with six, you can tell a little bit more next time, okay Selmacommenting
15SelmaI have ten, if I subtracted those I would have four and if I subtracted those I would have sixcontinuingone-to-one correspondence between a digit and quantitysubtraction task
16visiting-teacherokay Elliinitiating
17Ellieightansweringone-to-one correspondence between a digit and quantitysubitising
18visiting-teacherhmmcommenting
19Elliif I subtracted these two I would have sixcontinuingsubtraction taskcounting mentally
20visiting-teacheroh-hoh what about almacommenting
21AlmaI have now seven if I subtractedinitiatingsubtraction task
22visiting-teacheryescommentingsubtraction task