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Mathematics in the streets and in schools

Terezinha Nunes Carraher, David William Carraher, Analucia Dias Schliemann • British Journal of Developmental Psychology (1985)

An analysis of everyday use of mathematics by working youngsters in commercial transactions in Recife, Brazil, revealed computational strategies different from those taught in schools. Performance on mathematical problems embedded in real‐l...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-835x.1985.tb00951.x

Mathematics and the Body

Elizabeth de Freitas, Nathalie Sinclair • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2014)

This book explores alternative ways to consider the relationship between mathematics and the material world. Drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Châtelet and the post-humanist materialism of Karen Barad, the authors present an 'inclusive ma...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139600378

On Mathematical Problem Posing.

Edward A. Silver • for the learning of mathematics (1994)

In mathematics classes at all levels of schooling in all countries of the world, students can be observed solving problems. The quality and authenticity of these mathematics problems has been the subject of many discussions and debates in r...

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The Mathematical Brain

Brian L. Butterworth • UCL Discovery (University College London) (1999)

The concept of numbers and the ability to recognize and process them is innate, part of everyone's intellectual apparatus whether they've had formal education or not. This instinct is not dependent on basic intelligence or general knowledge...

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Philosophy of Mathematics Education

Bronisław Czarnocha, María Aparecida Viggiani Bicudo, Paul Ernest • International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME) (2024)

This survey provides a brief and selective overview of research in the philosophy of mathematics education. It asks what makes up the philosophy of mathematics education, what it means, what questions it asks and answers, and what is its ov...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811287152_0080

Education of staff in preschool aged classrooms in child care centers and child outcomes: A meta-analysis and systematic review.

Olesya Falenchuk, Michal Perlman, Evelyn McMullen, Brooke Fletcher et al. • PLoS ONE (2017)

Staff education is considered key to quality of early childhood education and care (ECEC) programs. However, findings about associations between staff education and children's outcomes have been inconsistent. We conducted a systematic revie...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183673

Asking mathematical questions mathematically

John Healey Mason • International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology (2000)

It is proposed that the style and format of the questions used by lecturers and tutors profoundly influence students' conceptions of what mathematics is about and how it is conducted. By looking at reasons for asking questions, and becoming...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/002073900287426

Mathematics, mathematicians, and mathematics education

Hyman Bass • Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (2005)

I am one of a growing number of research mathematicians who are substantially engaged with school mathematics education. Such outreach has a long and honor-able tradition. In this lecture, I illustrate some of the ways that I think this can...

OPENALEX public-domain DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0273-0979-05-01072-4

Teachers of Mathematics

Howard F. Fehr • Mathematics Teacher Learning and Teaching PK-12 (1948)

There are persons who do not like to teach who are conducting classes in our schools. There are persons who do not like mathematics who have been assigned to handle algebra classes and to instruct in arithmetic. There are men and women who ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5951/mt.41.6.0270

Working Memory and Children’s Mathematical Skills: Implications for mathematical development and mathematics curricula

Joni Holmes, John W. Adams • Educational Psychology (2005)

This study examined the contributions of the different components of the working memory (WM) model to a range of mathematical skills in children, using measures of WM function that did not involve numerical stimuli. A sample of 148 children...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01443410500341056

What Is Mathematics?

Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins • Oxford University Press eBooks (1996)

Abstract For more than two thousand years a familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person. Today, unfortunately, the traditional place of mathematics in educat...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195105193.001.0001