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Vol. 14 No. 1 (2011): Marzo

LEARNING MATHEMATICS WITH ADULT LEARNERS: DRAWING FROM PARENTS' PERSPECTIVE

Submitted
December 17, 2023
Published
2023-12-26

Abstract

This article explores issues related to the relationship between everyday mathematics and academic mathematics within adult education, through a series of workshops with parents. Participants were encouraged to reflect on their perspective on learning and teaching mathematics through different activities in the workshops. All sessions were videotaped. Our analy sis of multiple episodes revealed three topics: contextualization, transferring the mathematical knowledge, and sense making. We use three vignettes to illustrate these topics. Our study implications for adult education focus on mathematics as a situated practice produced as a consequence of interaction among learners in egalitarian spaces.

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