Readings/ textual analysis of issues 1, 50 and 100 of FLM for our class with David Pimm March 4

OH NO! I just realized that in (2) and (3) below, the scanner only scanned every second page!!


I will add a link to each of the three issues from the FLM website, so that you can see the missing pages of each article.
Here are the "readings" for next week's class and your blog posts:

1) FLM 1-1 (the first issue of the journal)
(pretty much complete here)

2) FLM 17-2 (counted as the 50th issue of the journal, as I didn't have 16-3!)
plus this link, to see the missing pages!

3) FLM 33-2 (the 100th issue of the journal)
(Sorry, the link on the FLM site does not include the actual articles! The site is not very consistent, unfortunately -- you will have to go with looking at every second page I'm afraid).

[After you have read (1), (2) or (3), everyone should also take a look at:

Bingjie Wang's Masters thesis, pp. 52-64 only
Bingjie presents data here on three Western math education journals (FLM, ESM and JRME) as part of her textual analysis.]

The idea here is to "read" the whole issue as a text, rather than reading every article in depth.

That means, for example:
•reading the table of contents, and thinking about the titles and topics of articles.

What levels of schooling or age groups do they have as their theme (if any at all!)

What kinds of issues are addressed? How are these distinctive?

•looking at the articles themselves:

How long are the articles?

Are they usually illustrated (and if so, how?)

Are there a lot of references cited?

Are there subheadings on the articles? If so, are they the subheadings that you expect, or not?

What language is the article in?

•looking at the issue as a whole:

What is on the front and back cover, and why?

What did you learn from the author identifications?

What about the material on the inside of the front and back covers?

Is there any material between the articles? If so, what is it? What kind of tone might it set?

There's lots more you might look at too. The idea is to get a holistic sense of the journal as an entity, with a history, a community of writers and readers, etc. You might try looking up the name of the journal to see if there's anything interesting written about it elsewhere too.


***Additionally, David Pimm has just sent a number of short (1-2 pg.) pieces from FLM 34(1), which turns out to be the actual 100th issue! 
Sorry that there has been some confusion about this week's readings...
If you are able to take a look at some or all of these very short pieces, which all talk about the nature and history of the journal, it would be some additional good background for our class next Wednesday.

a) Bartonlini-Bussi short piece FLM 34(1)
b) Barwell short editorial FLM 34(1)
c) D'Ambrosio short piece FLM 34(1)
d) Lee short piece FLM 34(1)
e) Pimm & Sinclair short piece FLM 34(1)
f) Sfard short piece FLM 34(1)
g) Sriraman short piece FLM 34(1)