The International Lexicon Project: Giving a name to what we do

Abstract

Different communities, speaking different languages, employ different naming systems to describe the events, actions and interactions of the mathematics classroom. The International Lexicon Project aims to identify the professional vocabularies available to middle school mathematics teachers in Australia, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Japan and the USA to describe the events of the mathematics classroom. Local teams of researchers and experienced teachers in each country used a common set of classroom videos to stimulate recognition of familiar terms describing aspects of the middle school mathematics classroom. Any reform initiative must take as its starting po..