STREET MATHEMATICS AND SCHOOL MATHEMATICS by Terezinha Nunes, David William Carraher, Analucia Dias Schliemann ( 9780521388139 )

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Title:

STREET MATHEMATICS AND SCHOOL MATHEMATICS

By:

Terezinha Nunes, David William Carraher, Analucia Dias Schliemann

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ISBN 10:

0521388139

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9780521388139

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 April, 1993

Series:

Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives

Pages:

184

Description:

People who learn how to solve problems on the job often learn differently from those who learn in theory. A systematic comparison of mathematics used in and out of school describes the two forms of activity as different cultural practices based on the same mathematical principles.

Synopsis:

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.

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17 b/w illus. 24 tables

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Cambridge University Press

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