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This study examined the relation of mathematical learning and problem-solving to influences close to the child (proximal) and social structures more removed (distal). A socio-ecological lens enables examination of multi-level influences within the religious practice of tithing (giving 10% of one’s earnings to the church). Distal influences (e.g., tax law) and proximal influences (e.g., norms for payment, parental practices) are investigated to explain the emergence of mathematical problems during the practice of tithing. Exploration of children’s success and strategy use as a function of problem context found differential success and strategy use when children solved problems of tithing, as compared to a mathematically similar school context. This research demonstrates how proximal and distal factors can illuminate the contours of everyday mathematical performance.
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The Journal of Mathematical Behavior solicits original research on the learning and teaching of mathematics. We are interested especially in basic research, research that aims to clarify, in detail and depth, how mathematical ideas develop in learners. Over three decades, our experience confirms a founding premise of this journal: that mathematical thinking, hence mathematics learning as a social enterprise, is special. It is special because mathematics is special, both logically and psychologically. Logically, through the way that mathematical ideas and methods have been built, refined and organized for centuries across a range of cultures; and psychologically, through the variety of ways people today, in many walks of life, make sense of mathematics, develop it, make it their own.
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