TY - JOUR
T1 - The influence of sources in the reading of mathematical text
T2 - A reply to Shanahan, Shanahan, and Misischia
AU - Weber, Keith
AU - Mejia-Ramos, Juan Pablo
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) received the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Some of the authors’ studies were funded by National Science Foundation grant # DRL-0643734.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In a recent article published in this journal, Shanahan, Shanahan, and Misischia investigated the differences in how chemists, historians, and mathematicians read text specific to their disciplines. Unlike the chemists and historians, the pair of mathematicians in this study did not consider sources when reading and evaluating their text. In this response, we contend that most mathematicians regularly do consider sources when reading mathematical arguments and papers. We summarize the results of four empirical studies, which suggest that this is the case.
AB - In a recent article published in this journal, Shanahan, Shanahan, and Misischia investigated the differences in how chemists, historians, and mathematicians read text specific to their disciplines. Unlike the chemists and historians, the pair of mathematicians in this study did not consider sources when reading and evaluating their text. In this response, we contend that most mathematicians regularly do consider sources when reading mathematical arguments and papers. We summarize the results of four empirical studies, which suggest that this is the case.
KW - Content reading
KW - Mathematical reading
KW - Mathematicians
KW - Qualitative study
KW - Quantitative study
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U2 - 10.1177/1086296X12469968
DO - 10.1177/1086296X12469968
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84878398102
VL - 45
SP - 87
EP - 96
JO - Journal of Literacy Research
JF - Journal of Literacy Research
SN - 1086-296X
IS - 1
ER -