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RESEARCH PAPER
Enactment of mathematical agency in ‘the mangle’
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Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, School of Education, University of Limpopo, SOUTH AFRICA
Publication date: 2022-07-19
EURASIA J. Math., Sci Tech. Ed 2022;18(8):em2139
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
In this paper, we argue that during collaborative classroom interactions, ‘the mangle’ is entangled
in different forms of agency that (dis)enable mathematical agency. We first unpack student’s
agency in the context of collaborative classroom interactions, and then use excerpts of
interactions to illustrate how ‘the mangle’ is entangled in resistant agency and relational agency.
The excerpts were sourced from a Grade 11 mathematics classroom, facilitated by the first author,
as students worked through an activity on factorization of quadratic expressions. We organize our
analysis of the critical incidents of only student-student interactions using Mueller et al.’s (2012)
framework to re-story how ‘the mangle’ is entangled.
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