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Mathematical Enculturation - A Cultural Perspective on Mathematics Education (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
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Mathematical Enculturation - A Cultural Perspective on Mathematics Education (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
Series: Mathematics Education Library, 6
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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 mental pain on their charges? Or is it that
their pupils are all masochists, enjoying the thrill of
self-inflicted mental torture? More seriously, do we really know
what the reasons are for the mathematical activity which goes on in
schools? Do we really have confidence in our criteria for judging
what's important and what isn't? Do we really know what we should
be doing? These basic questions become even more important when
considered in the context of two growing problem areas. The first
is a concern felt in many countries about the direction which
mathematics education should take in the face of the increasing
presence of computers and calculator-related technol ogy in
society."
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