Developing Multilingual Learners’ Mathematics Reasoning and Register

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Richard Kitchen University of Wyoming, Laramie

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Karla Matute Los Alamos National Laboratory, Santa Fe, New Mexico

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By examining some of Ms. Hill’s instructional moves, we demonstrate how a fifth-grade teacher simultaneously developed her multilingual learners’ mathematical reasoning and mathematics register.

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