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Mathematical Enculturation
Alan J. Bishop
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Description for Mathematical Enculturation
Paperback. Series: Mathematics Education Library. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNU; PB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 13. Weight in Grams: 326.
Mathematics is in the unenviable position of being simultaneously one of the most important school subjects for today's children to study and one of the least well understood. Its reputation is awe-inspiring. Everybody knows how important it is and everybody knows that they have to study it. But few people feel comfortable with it; so much so that it is socially quite acceptable in many countries to confess ignorance about it, to brag about one's incompe tence at doing it, and even to claim that one is mathophobic! So are teachers around the world being apparently legal sadists by inflicting ... Read more
Mathematics is in the unenviable position of being simultaneously one of the most important school subjects for today's children to study and one of the least well understood. Its reputation is awe-inspiring. Everybody knows how important it is and everybody knows that they have to study it. But few people feel comfortable with it; so much so that it is socially quite acceptable in many countries to confess ignorance about it, to brag about one's incompe tence at doing it, and even to claim that one is mathophobic! So are teachers around the world being apparently legal sadists by inflicting ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
Series
Mathematics Education Library
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792312703
SKU
V9780792312703
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Reviews for Mathematical Enculturation
`Taking a refreshing noneurocentric position which refutes any suggestion that `West is best' as regards the development of mathematical thinking, Bishop sees mathematical development as being a function of the needs of whatever society in which it arises.' Tony Brown (Manchester Polytechnic), in Mathematics Teaching `This book ... Read more