Developing Purposeful Mathematical Thinking: a Curious Tale of Apple Trees (Desarrollo de un pensamiento matemático intencionado: un relato curioso de manzanos)

In this paper I explore aspects of the ways in which school mathematics relates to the "real" world, and argue that this relationship is an uneasy one. Through exploring the causes of this unease, I aim to expose some problems in the ways in which context is used within mathematics educati...

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Main Author: Janet Ainley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Granada 2012-03-01
Series:PNA: Revista de Investigación en Didáctica de la Matemática
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Online Access:http://www.pna.es/Numeros2/pdf/AinleyDeveloping2012.pdf