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|Abstract=The act of explaining can help students to develop new understandings of mathematical ideas, construct rules for solving problems, become aware of misunderstandings or a lack of understanding and develop their mathematical communication. Their explanations can also offer opportunities for a teacher to understand more fully what the students are thinking. Yet, previous research has focused mainly on tasks, questions and other teacher actions that prompt student explanations and on generalising what counts as an explanation. Using a conversation analytic approach, transcripts of mathematics lessons from different schools and different teachers were analysed, looking specifically at the interactions where students gave explanations. This paper describes two interactional contexts where students gave explanations without being explicitly asked for one by the teacher. The structures and content of the interactions in which these student explanations occur reveal further ways in which teachers can encourage students to offer explanations beyond asking how or why questions. We suggest that awareness of the underlying structures of interactions is likely to leave the teacher better equipped to exploit such situations as they arise in their classrooms.
 
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Ingram-etal2019
BibType ARTICLE
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Author(s) Jenni Ingram, Nick Andrews, Andrea Pitt
Title When students offer explanations without the teacher explicitly asking them to
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Year 2019
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Journal Educational Studies in Mathematics
Volume 101
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Pages 51–66
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The act of explaining can help students to develop new understandings of mathematical ideas, construct rules for solving problems, become aware of misunderstandings or a lack of understanding and develop their mathematical communication. Their explanations can also offer opportunities for a teacher to understand more fully what the students are thinking. Yet, previous research has focused mainly on tasks, questions and other teacher actions that prompt student explanations and on generalising what counts as an explanation. Using a conversation analytic approach, transcripts of mathematics lessons from different schools and different teachers were analysed, looking specifically at the interactions where students gave explanations. This paper describes two interactional contexts where students gave explanations without being explicitly asked for one by the teacher. The structures and content of the interactions in which these student explanations occur reveal further ways in which teachers can encourage students to offer explanations beyond asking how or why questions. We suggest that awareness of the underlying structures of interactions is likely to leave the teacher better equipped to exploit such situations as they arise in their classrooms.

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