Mathematics, and its Learning, as Narrative — A Literacy for the Twenty-first Century: Leone Burton

Narrative, I want to claim, is an attempt to impose coherent meaning on experience. Connectedness, and consequently coherence, is a necessary part of narrative. Without it, narrative does not gain, or hold, attention. Indeed, narrative always communicates within a community involving story teller(s), sometimes listeners, or readers, and sometimes participants. It engages others in the attempt not only to tell but also to explain and, ultimately, to understand the experience which has provoked it.