Toward a critical graphicacy -- The work of reading graphs -- Graphicacy and context -- Photographs in biology texts -- Graphicacy in lectures -- Interpretive graphicacy in practice -- Layered inscriptions: what does it take to get their point? -- Semiotics of chemical inscriptions -- Reading layered, dynamic inscriptions -- Epilogue: steps toward critical graphicacy.School science is dominated…
1. Introduction -- 2. Semiotics in theory and practice in mathematics education -- 3. A summary of results -- References.Open AccessThis volume discusses semiotics in mathematics education as an activity with a formal sign system, in which each sign represents something else. Theories presented by Saussure, Peirce, Vygotsky and other writers on semiotics are summarized in their relevance to the…
Main Topics You Can Find in this “ICME-13 Topical Survey” -- Introduction -- Survey on the State-of-the-art -- Summary and Looking Ahead.Open AccessThis book provides an essential introduction to the state-of the-art in interdisciplinary Mathematics Education. First, it begins with an outline of the field’s relevant historical, conceptual and theoretical backgrounds, what “discipline”…