ABSTRACT
As Claudia shared her mathematics life story for this work, we moved from her first-grade classroom to a sunny porch at her rural school. It was an unseasonably warm October afternoon as she told of playing with dolls, stores, and having money hidden away. She saw herself as a “typical child in elementary school” where she really didn’t have very fond memories of math, where it was all about “how…you do this,” where she would look to her neighbor if she didn’t know the math, and where things stayed the same for her in mathematics well into high school.
