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People's opinions about how best to teach mathematics are often heavily influenced by their assumptions of the nature of learning mathematics itself. The authors of this text on teaching and learning mathematics all hold the view that mathematics is a form of intelligent problem-solving which plays an important part in children's lives outside the classroom as well as in it. One theme of the chapters is that an important part of teaching at school is to make explicit for children mathematical ideas which have already been picked up and used in more informal settings. The authors also stress the social construction of children's mathematical knowledge at school through the acquisition of new modes of representation which increases the power of ther mathematical understanding.

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This is a very timely book which should become essential reading for psychologists and people working in the areas of primary education and secondary mathematics. This collection of papers goes a long way to make research on the development of mathematical knowledge accessible to teachers while in no way compromising its scholarship. teachers and psychologists interested in mathematical development will do well to invest time and effort in reading and re-reading this collection in order to extend their understanding of the processes involved in both learning and teaching. - Review in British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 17:4, 1999, by Rhona Stainthorp, University of Reading.

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Peter Bryant, Terezinha Nunes

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