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Rowlands, Stuart – Science & Education, 2010
There appears to be a widespread assumption that deductive geometry is inappropriate for most learners and that they are incapable of engaging with the abstract and rule-governed intellectual processes that became the world's first fully developed and comprehensive formalised system of thought. This article discusses a curriculum initiative that…
Descriptors: Geometry, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Carson, Robert N.; Rowlands, Stuart – Science & Education, 2007
Mathematics begins in human experience thousands of years ago as empirical and intuitive experiences. It takes the deliberate naming of concepts to help crystallize and secure those observations and intuitions as abstract concepts, and to begin separating the concept of number from specific instances of objects. It takes the creation of compact…
Descriptors: Symbols (Mathematics), Concept Formation, Geometry, Mathematics Instruction