Using Mathematics to Understand the World: How Culture Promotes
Children's Mathematics offers fundamental insight into how
mathematics permeates our lives as a way of representing and
thinking about the world. Internationally renowned experts
Terezinha Nunes and Peter Bryant examine research into children's
mathematical development to show why it is important to distinguish
between quantities, relations and numbers. Using Mathematics to
Understand the World presents a theory about the development of
children's quantitative reasoning and reveals why and how teaching
about quantitative reasoning can be used to improve children's
mathematical attainment in school. It describes how learning about
the analytical meaning of numbers is established as part of
mathematics at school but quantitative reasoning is emphasized less
even though it is increasingly acclaimed as essential for thinking
mathematically and for using mathematics to understand the world.
This essential text is for all students of mathematics education,
developmental psychology and cognitive psychology. By including
activities for parents and professionals to try themselves, it may
help you to recognize your own quantitative reasoning.
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