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What is Mathematics: School Guide to Conceptual Understanding of Mathematics

What is Mathematics: School Guide to Conceptual Understanding of Mathematics

Barboianu, Catalin

Paperback

General MathematicsTeaching Instruction

Publisher Price: $59.00

ISBN10: 9731991980
ISBN13: 9789731991986
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Jan 18 2021
Pages: 316
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

This is not a mathematics book, but a book about mathematics, which addresses both student and teacher, with a goal as practical as possible, namely to initiate and smooth the way toward the student's full understanding of the mathematics taught in school.

The customary procedural-formal approach to teaching mathematics has resulted in students' distorted vision of mathematics as a merely formal, instrumental, and calculatory discipline. Without the conceptual base of mathematics, students develop over time a mathematical anxiety and abandon any effort to understand mathematics, which becomes their traditional enemy in school. This work materializes the results of the inter- and trans-disciplinary research aimed toward the understanding of mathematics, which concluded that the fields with the potential to contribute to mathematics education in this respect, by unifying the procedural and conceptual approaches, are epistemology and philosophy of mathematics and science, as well as fundamentals and history of mathematics. These results argue that students' fear of mathematics can be annulled through a conceptual approach, and a student with a good conceptual understanding will be a better problem solver.

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