Learning and Teaching Mathematics: An International Perspective

P. Bryant, T. Nunes

Psychology Press | 1999 | 512 páginas |  pdf  | 8,6 Mb

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The authors of this volume, which is newly available in paperback, all hold the view that mathematics is a form of intelligent problem solving which plays an important part in children's lives outside the classroom as well as in it. Learning and Teaching Mathematicsprovides an exciting account of recent and radically different research on teaching and learning mathematics which will have a far reaching effect on views about mathematical education

Contents
The nature of mathematical concepts / Gérard Vergnaud
Systems of signs and mathematical reasoning / Terezinha Nunes
Mathematical understanding in the nursery school years / Peter Bryant
Word problems : a vehicle for promoting authentic mathematical understanding and problem solving in the primary school? / L. Verschaffel and E. De Corte
Children's understandings of turn and angle / Sandra Magina and Celia Hoyles
Knowing about proportions in different contexts / Janice A. Singer, Amy S. Kohn and Lauren B. Resnick
Mathematical concepts at the secondary school level : the learning of algebra and functions / Carolyn Kieran
Happy birthday to you : early mathematical thinking of Asian, South American, and US children / Herbert P. Ginsburg ... [et al.]
Learning arithmetic with an abacus / Giyoo Hatano
What children and teachers count as mathematics / Guida de Abreu, Alan J. Bishop and Geraldo Pompeu, Jr.
Social interactions and mathematics learning / M.L. Schubauer-Leoni and A.-N. Perret-Clermont
Meaning mathematically with computers / Richard Noss
Mediating between concrete and abstract / Koeno Gravemeije
Charming fractions or fractions being charmed? / L. Streefland
Didactic engineering / Régine Douady