Thinking as Communicating : Human Development, the Growth of Discourses, and Mathematizing (Paperback)

Introduction; Part I. Discourse on Thinking: 1. Puzzling about (mathematical) thinking; 2. Objectification; 3. Commognition: thinking as communicating; 4. Thinking in language; Part II. Mathematics as Discourse: 5. Mathematics as a form of communication; 6. Objects of mathematical discourse: what mathematizing is all about; 7. Routines: how we mathematize; 8. Explorations, deeds, and rituals: what we mathematize for; 9. Looking back and ahead: solving old quandaries and facing new ones.