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Differential Enhancement in Mathematical Pre-School Class Activities

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In this chapter, an adapted version of Dowling’s distributive strategies is used to show how two children, Klara and Teo, are provided with differential enhancement in the mathematical learning opportunities that they are offered. The analysis shows that the use of everyday settings of mathematics problems, including expectations about the social relationships in those settings, can cause children to collude in the kind of enhancement that they experience. Expectations about the social relationships, within the problems being solved and between the participants, contributed to the two children using strategies which channelled them towards operating in different domains.

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  1. 1.

    Known as Klara and Teo in Helenius et al. (2016) and as Lova and Teo in Helenius et al. (2015)

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    The Swedish term for early childhood education and care for one-to-five-year-old children is “förskola”, i.e. “pre-school”.

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  1. National Centre for Mathematics Education (NCM), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Ola Helenius

  2. Department of Arts, Communication and Education, Luleå Technical University, Luleå, Sweden

    Maria L. Johansson

  3. Faculty of Education, Arts and Sports, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway

    Troels Lange & Tamsin Meaney

  4. Department of Science, Environment, Society, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden

    Anna Wernberg

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Helenius, O., Johansson, M.L., Lange, T., Meaney, T., Wernberg, A. (2018). Differential Enhancement in Mathematical Pre-School Class Activities. In: Gellert, U., Knipping, C., Straehler-Pohl, H. (eds) Inside the Mathematics Class. Advances in Mathematics Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-79045-9_6

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