The Languages of the Math Classroom

© '98, '08, '09 Agnes Azzolino


Math Class Languages

MOTHER TONGUE & OTHER TONGUE(S)
Most Sophisticated and also the Most Basic
VERBAL / Auditory
formal spoken mathematics
informal spoken mathematics
spoken symbol
symbol speak
calculatoreze/computereze
web speak
WRITTEN / Symbolic
written word
written symbol
semisymbolic
calculator symbol
PICTORIAL / Visual
DIGITAL MANIPULATIVE
moving picture
static picture
numeral
graph
nonverbal body language
CONCRETE / Kinesthetic
object
model
manipulative/token
More Sophisticated, More Basic

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The Languages of the Math Classroom

    Verbal, Written, Pictorial, and Concrete (the Hundreds Board, for example) are the four broad mathematics language families discussed in this electronic monograph found at www.mathnstuff.com/papers/langu/page0.htm and additional pages (ISBN: 1-929-870-01-9 © 1998, Agnes Azzolino).

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