Performing Math: A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom
Andrew Fiss Ph.D, "Performing Math: A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom"
English | ISBN: 1978820208 | 2020 | 216 pages | PDF | 9 MB
English | ISBN: 1978820208 | 2020 | 216 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Performing Math tells the history of expectations for math communication—and the conversations about math hatred and math anxiety that occurred in response. Focusing on nineteenth-century American colleges, this book analyzes foundational tools and techniques of math communication: the textbooks that supported reading aloud, the burnings that mimicked pedagogical speech, the blackboards that accompanied oral presentations, the plays that proclaimed performers’ identities as math students, and the written tests that redefined “student performance.” Math communication and math anxiety went hand in hand as new rules for oral communication at the blackboard inspired student revolt and as frameworks for testing student performance inspired performance anxiety. With unusual primary sources from over a dozen educational archives,
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