This volume grew out of a symposium on discourse, tools and instructional design at Vanderbilt University in 1995 that has brought together a small international group to grapple with issues of communicating, symbolizing, modelling and mathematizing, particularly as these issues relate to learning in the classroom. The participants invited to develop chapters for this book - all internationally recognized scholars in their respective fields - were selected to represent a wide range of theoretical perspectives including mathematics education, cognitive science, sociocultural theory and...

This volume grew out of a symposium on discourse, tools and instructional design at Vanderbilt University in 1995 that has brought together a small international group to grapple with issues of communicating, symbolizing, modelling and mathematizing, particularly as these issues relate to learning in the classroom. The participants invited to develop chapters for this book - all internationally recognized scholars in their respective fields - were selected to represent a wide range of theoretical perspectives including mathematics education, cognitive science, sociocultural theory and...