for the learning of mathematics

an international journal of mathematics education

Anna Wallin ,  Paola Valero ,  Eva Norén - Vol. 45 Num. 1 (2025)
 Mathemat-ing and ethical sensibility: being within mathematics in school-age educare

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 ABSTRACT:

Drawing on research in the context of Swedish school-age educare and adopting a post-humanist theoretical–methodological approach, we put forward the notion of mathemat-ing to conceptualise mathematical events that emerge in out-of-school configurations of practice. In them, ethical sensibilities as affects of engagement and rejection may be mobilised. Being responsive in the event together with other human and non-human is argued to be a valuable experience of importance for children’s overall mathematics education. Mathemat-ing contributes a more inclusive view of what it may mean to relate to mathematics. Keywords: Mathemat-ing , mathematical event, ethical sensibilities, inclusive materialism, post-humanism, school-age educare.