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Series: Difficulties in Learning Mathematics

General Education

ISBN10: 0631135812
ISBN13: 9780631135814
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: Aug 26 1986
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The importance of learning mathematics is constantly stressed by educationalists and employers alike. Yet survey after survey shows that large numbers of children leave school lacking both competence and interest in mathematics. What is going wrong and what should be done about it?

In Children and Number Martin Hughes proposes a new perspective on children's early attempts to understand mathematics. He describes the surprisingly substantial knowledge about number which children acquire naturally before they start school, and contrasts this with the difficulties presented by the formal written symbolism of mathematics in the classroom. He argues that children need to build links between their informal and their formal understanding of number, and shows what happens when these links are not made.

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