Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-431) and indexes.
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 [and others] -- 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 Gravemeijer -- Charming fractions or fractions being charmed? / L. Streefland -- Didactic engineering / Régine Douady.
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Newly available in paperback, this volume contends that mathematics is a form of intelligent problem solving which plays an important part in children's lives. It also includes recent research on teaching and learning mathematics.
Mathematics-- Study and teaching.
Mathématiques-- Étude et enseignement.
31.04 teaching, profession, organizations of mathematics.