Beginning with the presentation of two fictitious South African children, Nthabiseng and Pieter, I outline the idea of a politics of meaning in mathematics education. Such a politics refers to the social, economic, cultural and religious conditions for experiencing meaning. It refers as well to ...
This survey, in opening the article collection “Mathematics Education for Sustainable Futures”, aims to prompt thinking and action around the significance of social and (related) ecological sustainability within our field. We are convinced—by mathematics itself, and by the scholarship we survey—tha...
Definition of maths noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
The meaning of ARITHMETIC is a branch of mathematics that deals usually with the nonnegative real numbers including sometimes the transfinite cardinals and with the application of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to t
The meaning of ARITHMETIC is a branch of mathematics that deals usually with the nonnegative real numbers including sometimes the transfinite cardinals and with the application of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to t
The DIKWP Semantic Mathematics framework employs several mechanisms to transform subjective semantics into objective concepts: Data Representation and Categorization: Semantic Space: Data in the semantic space is raw, unstructured, and open to multiple interpretations. Concept Space: In the concept space,...
I analyze an episode from field work in a multilingual day-care centre in Oslo. I examine verbal andnon-verbal expressions. The children are 5 years old, and the mathematics is about classification. The childrenare creating structure and are seeking meaning. This is a key part of their play...
The effect of language on gains in mathematical cognition did not differ between language minority learners and native English speakers. These findings suggest that language influences how children make meaning of mathematics but is not involved in complex arithmetical procedures whether presented with ...
to share with you that it is possible for teachers to create such engaging and playful learning environments that children don’t yet realize they are in the math, reading, or writing component of their day. They are simply and deeply immersed in the experience of making meaning through play...
Page 83, Exercise 4.2.7: It would be slightly better to use some other variable than C in part (d), since C already had a different meaning in (b)).Page 105, Exercise 4.7.10 (b): Typo in “for any realnumbers x and y” (missing space)Page 116, Definition 5.4.2: It might ...