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Author Fiss, Andrew, author.

Title Performing math : a history of communication and anxiety in the American mathematics classroom / Andrew Fiss.

Publication Info. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 195 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents How math communication has started with reading aloud -- How math communication has been practiced in prohibited ways -- How math anxiety has developed from classroom tech -- How math communication has been theatrical -- How math anxiety became about written testing -- Conclusion: Math communication from STEM to STEAM.
Summary "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, Performing Math argues for a new, performance-oriented history of American math education, one that can explain contemporary math attitudes and provide a way forward to reframing the problem of math anxiety"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Higher)
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Communication in mathematics -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Math anxiety -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Math anxiety.
Communication in mathematics.
MATHEMATICS / General.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Fiss, Andrew. Performing math. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021] 9781978820210 (DLC) 2020008435 (OCoLC)1151188895
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