Many theoretical ideas and pedagogical suggestions related to habits of mind have been
raised. However, the research on this topic is still relatively thin. Using Cobb and Yackel‟s
(1996) emergent perspective in which “learning is a constructive process that occurs while
participating in and contributing to the practices of the local community” (p. 185), we regard
mathematical habits of mind as individual dispositions that are reflexively related to
mathematical practices of a classroom community. Cobb and Yackel suggested that “analysis
whose primary purpose is psychological should be conducted against the background of an
interactionist analysis of the social situation in which the student is acting” (p. 188). Hence, we
encourage research on understanding the interaction between individual mathematical habits of
mind and classroom mathematical practices, in addition to research on how students develop
mathematical habits of mind.