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Cultural Perspectives on the Mathematics Classroom
Steve . Ed(S): Lerman
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Description for Cultural Perspectives on the Mathematics Classroom
Hardback. Offers contributions to the debate about mathematics teaching and learning. This book adopts theoretical perspectives while drawing on the classroom as both the source of investigation and the site of potential change and development. It is suitable for lecturers and researchers and teachers concerned with the classroom as a cultural phenomenon. Editor(s): Lerman, Steve. Series: Mathematics Education Library. Num Pages: 221 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JNU; PB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 498.
Mathematics teaching and learning have been dominated by a concern for the intellectual readiness of the child, debates over rote learning versus understanding and, recently, mathematical processes and thinking. The gaze into today's mathematics classroom is firmly focused on the individual learner. Recently, however, studies of mathematics in social practices, including the market place and the home, have initiated a shift of focus. Culture has become identified as a key to understanding the basis on which the learner appropriates meaning. The chapters in this timely book attempt to engage with this ... Read more
Mathematics teaching and learning have been dominated by a concern for the intellectual readiness of the child, debates over rote learning versus understanding and, recently, mathematical processes and thinking. The gaze into today's mathematics classroom is firmly focused on the individual learner. Recently, however, studies of mathematics in social practices, including the market place and the home, have initiated a shift of focus. Culture has become identified as a key to understanding the basis on which the learner appropriates meaning. The chapters in this timely book attempt to engage with this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
Series
Mathematics Education Library
Number of Pages
215
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792329312
SKU
V9780792329312
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Ref
99-15
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