Proceedings of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education · Volume 1
Nagisa Nakawa, Yusuke Uegatani, Yuichiro Hattori, Nur Robiah Nofikusumawati Peni
Kanto Gakuin Univesity
⬇ Download PDFThis paper contributes to the ethical turn in mathematics education by illustrating the mutual development of mathematics and ethics in early childhood. Using a design research approach, we implemented an authentic mathematically involved activity in which six young children distributed ten oranges for actual consumption. The findings show that children’s ethics were enacted through embodied mathematical trial and error and were inseparable from mathematical activity. The study also indicates that questionable applications of mathematics already emerge in early childhood. Developing generalisable hypotheses remains a task for future research.
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