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