In Table 4, the first row records that in all the six M sub-events legitimating
appeals were made to mathematics as a subject; there were no other appeals. In row 3
however, across the six T sub-events, eight appeals were recorded, reflecting that there
was more than one appeal in some of the sub-events. Table 4 shows that when M is
the primary object, all appeals (100 %) were made to the field of mathematics itself.
When T was the primary object, there was a wider range of legitimating appeals, the
majority appealing to experience of the lecturer or student, or to the authority of the
lecturer (75 %).