Doing mathematics with music – Creating epistemic environments

Ana Cristina Azevedo da Silva; Maria Cecília Costa; Joaquim Bernardino Lopes

doi:10.29333/ejmste/12034

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Ana Cristina Azevedo da Silva ¹ ^* , Maria Cecília Costa ² ³ , Joaquim Bernardino Lopes ² ³

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¹ Celorico de Basto School Group, PORTUGAL² UTAD, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, PORTUGAL³ CIDTFF–Research Center in Didactics and Technology in Training of Trainers, Aveiro, PORTUGAL^* Corresponding Author

Abstract

It is rare to turn music into a mathematical object in an educational context, although the benefit of the articulation between mathematics and music is recognized. The present study focuses on the epistemic environment created for students to do maths with music. The methodological approach had two components: an exploratory one to study the relationships between the epistemic environment experienced by students and the epistemic levels at which they do mathematics, and a quasi-experimental one to assess the effectiveness of intervention in student learning. Three groups took part in the study. The “doing maths with music” approach is more effective than conventional ones whether, or not, students have in-depth musical knowledge. On the other hand, educational artefacts used by students allowed them to deal with music at various epistemic levels, with relevant relationships between the quality of students’ epistemic activity and the profile of epistemic levels.

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artefacts
epistemic levels
instrumental orchestration
learning
performance
teaching

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, Volume 18, Issue 5, May 2022, Article No: em2111

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Silva, Ana Cristina Azevedo da, Maria Cecília Costa, and Joaquim Bernardino Lopes. "Doing mathematics with music – Creating epistemic environments". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2022 18 no. 5 (2022): em2111. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/12034

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Silva, A. C. A. D., Costa, M. C., and Lopes, J. B. (2022). Doing mathematics with music – Creating epistemic environments. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 18(5), em2111. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/12034

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Silva, Ana Cristina Azevedo da et al. "Doing mathematics with music – Creating epistemic environments". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 18, no. 5, 2022, em2111. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/12034