Terezinha Nunes, Peter Bryant

Using Mathematics to Understand the World (eBook, ePUB)

How Culture Promotes Children's Mathematics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Using Mathematics to Understand the World offers fundamental insight into how mathematics permeates our lives as a way of representing and thinking about the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429560804
• Artikelnr.: 62130002

Autorenporträt

Terezinha Nunes is a Brazilian Psychologist with a doctorate from City University of New York and a Doctor Honoris Causa from Szeged University. She is Emeritus Professor of Education, Oxford University. She received the 2017 Freudenthal Award for innovative and influential research in mathematics education from the International Committee on Mathematics Instruction.

Peter Bryant's research has been on children's cognitive development and its impact on how they learn to read and write and to do mathematics. He is a FRS and he was the Watts Professor of Psychology at Oxford University for several years.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Mathematical models and thinking 2. Counting
adding and natural numbers 3. Sharing
dividing and rational numbers 4. Word problems
implicit agreements
quantitative reasoning and arithmetic 5. Promoting quantitative reasoning in elementary school 6. When what we know is not what we see