Listening Figures: Listening to Learners of Mathematics at Secondary School and Above

This book is firmly based on listening to people in secondary schools and beyond as they go about discovering, learning. and doing mathematics. Chapters report on what is gained by listening to school students, undergraduates, and adult learners. Sometimes the listening is informal; sometimes it is based on mathematics lessons or interviews. The accounts are used as models on which to base discussion of issues about mathematical understanding and about the views held about mathematics and a...