Steinbring, Heinz:
The relation between social and conceptual conventions in everyday mathematics teaching
Second Italian German Bilateral Symposium on Didactics of Mathematics; 21 - 26 April 1992; Georgsmarienhütte
In: Proceedings of the Second Italian German Bilateral Symposium on Didactics of Mathematics, Haus Ohrbeck (Georgsmarienhütte), 21 - 26 April 1992 / Bazzini, Luciana (Hrsg.). - Bielefeld: Institut für Didaktik der Mathematik, 1994, S. 369 - 383
1994Buchaufsatz/Kapitel in Tagungsband
MathematikFakultät für Mathematik » Didaktik der Mathematik
Titel in Englisch:
The relation between social and conceptual conventions in everyday mathematics teaching
Konferenz
Second Italian German Bilateral Symposium on Didactics of Mathematics; 21 - 26 April 1992; Georgsmarienhütte
Autor*in:
Steinbring, HeinzUDE
GND
112462404X
LSF ID
5779
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der Hochschule zugeordnete*r Autor*in
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Sprache des Textes:
Englisch

Abstract in Englisch:

The paper analyzes the specific epistemological role of mathematical symbols by using and comparing the Odgen and Richards' triangle of meaning with the epistemological triangle of "Symbol, Concept and Object". The micro-analysis of a teaching episode about the meaning of the decimal point and the role of appended zeros to decimal numbers illustrates the dominating tendency in classroom interaction to conceive of mathematical symbols and signs as pure names for concrete objects. This denotation function of mathematical signs hinders the conceptual development of symbols. The adequate understanding of the symbols role requires to interpret single mathematical symbols as systems of signs with their operations. The construction of such systems depends on the interplay between social and conceptual conventions and conditions.