The Languages of the Math Classroom

© '98, '08 Agnes Azzolino

Math Class Languages

VERBAL: mother tongue; other tongue(s); formal spoken mathematics; informal spoken mathematics; spoken symbol; symbol speak; calculatoreze/computereze; web speak

WRITTEN: written word; written symbol; semisymbolic; calculator symbol

PICTORIAL: moving picture; static picture; numeral; graph; nonverbal body language

CONCRETE: object; model; manipulative/token

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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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