ABSTRACT
At the beginning of the intellectual journey involved in this study, I attempted to specify the context of a mathematics problem by its wording and format. I produced findings within this framework (Chapters 2-4) and evaluated them (Chapter 5). Limitations and anomalies in my own findings, as well as concerns emerging in the literature about a narrow definition of context (see Chapter 6), led me to seek to formulate a broader notion of context.
