Learning and Teaching Number Theory: Research in Cognition and Instruction (Mathematics, Learning, and Cognition: Monograph Series of the Journal of Mathematical Behavior)
Contributors: Stephen R. Campbell (Editor); Rina Zazkis (Editor)
Publisher: Ablex Publishing
Published: November 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781567506525
Subjects: Number Theory; Teaching of a specific subject; Teaching skills & techniques; Study and teaching; Mathematics; Education; Science/Mathematics; Cognitive Psychology; Curricula; Education / Curricula
First sentence: Since the beginning of the ancient Greek Pythagorean tradition over two and a half millennia ago, striving for a conceptual understanding of numbers and their properties, patterns, structures, and forms has constituted the heart, if not the soul, of mathematics and mathematical thinking.