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Title Learning and teaching mathematics : an international perspective / edited by T. Nunes, P. Bryant
Published Hove, East Sussex : Psychology Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 443 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-431) and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Mathematics -- Study and teaching.
MATHEMATICS -- Essays.
MATHEMATICS -- Pre-Calculus.
MATHEMATICS -- Reference.
Mathematics -- Study and teaching
Form Electronic book
Author Nunes, Terezinha.
Bryant, Peter, 1937-
ISBN 1317716000
9781317716006
9781317715993
1317715993
9781315784939
1315784939