| Street Mathematics and School Mathematics Contributor(s): Nunes, Terezinha (Author), Schliemann, Analucia Dias (Joint Author), Carraher, David William (Joint Author) |
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ISBN: 0521388139 ISBN-13: 9780521388139 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $47.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1993 Annotation: People who learn to solve problems ???on the job??? often have to do it differently from people who learn in theory. Practical knowledge and theoretical knowledge is different in some ways but similar in other ways - or else one would end up with wrong solutions to the problems. Mathematics is also like this. People who learn to calculate, for example, because they are involved in commerce frequently have a more practical way of doing mathematics than the way we are taught at school. This book is about the differences between what we call practical knowledge of mathematics - that is street mathematics - and mathematics learned in school, which is not learned in practice. The authors look at the differences between these two ways of solving mathematical problems and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. They also discuss ways of trying to put theory and practice together in mathematics teaching. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics - Education | Educational Psychology - Psychology | Education & Training |
| Dewey: 370.156 |
| LCCN: 92023183 |
| Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6.01" W x 8.98" (0.60 lbs) 184 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: People who learn to solve problems 'on the job' often have to do it differently from people who learn in theory. Practical knowledge and theoretical knowledge is different in some ways but similar in other ways - or else one would end up with wrong solutions to the problems. Mathematics is also like this. People who learn to calculate, for example, because they are involved in commerce frequently have a more practical way of doing mathematics than the way we are taught at school. This book is about the differences between what we call practical knowledge of mathematics - that is street mathematics - and mathematics learned in school, which is not learned in practice. The authors look at the differences between these two ways of solving mathematical problems and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. They also discuss ways of trying to put theory and practice together in mathematics teaching. |