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Owens, Kay. 2019. Identifying vernacular language to use in mathematics teaching. Language & Education 33 (1) : 1–17.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

Teaching mathematics in children’s first language has both cognitive benefits and assists with evolving cultural and mathematical identity. In Papua New Guinea, many different Indigenous languages are used for instruction in elementary schools and teachers often need to identify or evolve mathematics terminology themselves.