Symbols and Meanings in School Mathematics
Symbols and Meanings in School Mathematics explores the various uses and aspects of symbols in school mathematics and also examines the notion of mathematical meaning. It is concerned with the power of language which enables us to do mathematics, giving us the ability to name and rename, to transform names and to use names and descriptions to conjure, communicate and control our images. It is in the interplay between language, image and object that mathematics is created and can be communicated to others.


The book also addresses a set of questions of particular relevance to the last decade of the twentieth century, which arise due to the proliferation of machines offering mathematical functioning.
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Symbols and Meanings in School Mathematics
Symbols and Meanings in School Mathematics explores the various uses and aspects of symbols in school mathematics and also examines the notion of mathematical meaning. It is concerned with the power of language which enables us to do mathematics, giving us the ability to name and rename, to transform names and to use names and descriptions to conjure, communicate and control our images. It is in the interplay between language, image and object that mathematics is created and can be communicated to others.


The book also addresses a set of questions of particular relevance to the last decade of the twentieth century, which arise due to the proliferation of machines offering mathematical functioning.
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Symbols and Meanings in School Mathematics

Symbols and Meanings in School Mathematics

by David Pimm
Symbols and Meanings in School Mathematics

Symbols and Meanings in School Mathematics

by David Pimm

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Symbols and Meanings in School Mathematics explores the various uses and aspects of symbols in school mathematics and also examines the notion of mathematical meaning. It is concerned with the power of language which enables us to do mathematics, giving us the ability to name and rename, to transform names and to use names and descriptions to conjure, communicate and control our images. It is in the interplay between language, image and object that mathematics is created and can be communicated to others.


The book also addresses a set of questions of particular relevance to the last decade of the twentieth century, which arise due to the proliferation of machines offering mathematical functioning.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415113854
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 04/20/1995
Series: Series
Pages: 238
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, An idiosyncratic preface, 1 INTRODUCTION, 2 MANIPULATIVES AS SYMBOLS, 3 GEOMETRIC IMAGES AND SYMBOLS, 4 WHAT COUNTS AS A NUMBER?, 5 ALGEBRA TRANSFORMING, 6 MAKING REPRESENTATIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS, 7 SYMBOLS AND MEASURES, 8 LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD: SYMBOLS IN CONTEXTS, 9 ON FLUENCY AND UNDERSTANDING, 10 ON MANIPULATION, Notes, References, Name index, Subject index
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