Why teach mathematics? : a focus on general education /
The cultural and practical significance of mathematics in our society contrasts strikingly with the way adolescents experience mathematics in school. Mathematics teaching, it appears, succeeds in promoting abilities related to systematical and critical thinking, to problem solving, and to formulatin...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the German. |
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Dordrecht ; Boston :
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
[2010]
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| Series: | Mathematics education library ;
33. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The cultural and practical significance of mathematics in our society contrasts strikingly with the way adolescents experience mathematics in school. Mathematics teaching, it appears, succeeds in promoting abilities related to systematical and critical thinking, to problem solving, and to formulating rational arguments only for a minority of students. Why Teach Mathematics presents detailed arguments for seven interconnected objectives of a school system aiming at general education. A specific concept of general education involving these seven objectives serves as a criterion for a critique of the current widespread form of mathematics instruction, identifying its deficits and determining which innovations are necessary. Existing concepts of mathematics teaching are reexamined and assessed in the light of the concept of general education. Finally, the book provides a profile of an alternative mathematics instruction that can, indeed, help to realize a general education. |
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| Item Description: | Reprint. Originally published: Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic, 2003. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 262 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-253) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789401736824 (electronic bk.) 9401736820 (electronic bk.) |