This PDF file presents a chapter of Annual Perspectives in Mathematics 2014: Using Research to Improve Instruction in a downloadable file that preserves the design and layout of the book while allowing users to search and print selected pages.

Chapter 13: “Multimodal Communication: Promoting and Revealing Students’ Mathematical Thinking.” Gwendolyn Moffett, Kristen Malzahn (Horizon Research Inc.), and Mark Driscoll (Education Development Center Inc.) present three vignettes of seventh-grade English language learners (ELLs) using multimodal communication to work on a parallelogram problem. The chapter concludes with the implications of this type of communication for lesson planning and implementation.

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