Understanding the Mathematical Way of Thinking – The Registers of Semiotic Representations

• Main Author: Duval, Raymond (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Education.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Teaching.; Mathematics Education.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Learning & Instruction.

In this book, Raymond Duval shows how his theory of registers of semiotic representation can be used as a tool to analyze the cognitive processes through which students develop mathematical thinking. To Duval, the analysis of mathematical knowledge is in its essence the analysis of the cognitive syn...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter I Representation and knowledge: the semiotic revolution
• Chapter II Mathematical activity and the transformations of semiotic representations
• Chapter III Registers of semiotic representations and analysis of the cognitive functioning of mathematical thinking
• Chapter IV The registers: method of analysis and identification of cognitive variables.