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Teaching Children to be Mathematicians vs. Teaching About Mathematics

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dc.creator Papert, Seymour
dc.date 2004-10-01T20:47:14Z
dc.date 2004-10-01T20:47:14Z
dc.date 1971-07-01
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-09T02:41:29Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-09T02:41:29Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-09
dc.identifier AIM-249
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5837
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/1721
dc.description Being a mathematician is no more definable as 'knowing' a set of mathematical facts than being a poet is definable as knowing a set of linguistic facts. Some modern math ed reformers will give this statement a too easy assent with the comment: 'Yes, they must understand, not merely know.' But this misses the capital point that being a mathematician, again like being a poet, or a composer or an engineer, means doing, rather than knowing or understanding. This essay is an attempt to explore some ways in which one might be able to put children in a better position to do mathematics rather than merely to learn about it.
dc.format 26 p.
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dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en_US
dc.relation AIM-249
dc.title Teaching Children to be Mathematicians vs. Teaching About Mathematics


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