Monday, October 28, 2013

PERSPECTIVES OF MATHEMATICS ANT ITS RELATION TO TEACHING AND LEARNING

Perspectives of mathematics :

Mathematics as a dynamic and continually expanding field of human creation, involving the process of inquiry, thinking, reasoning (with its intellectual rigour), discovery and invention as well as a cultural product of various civilizations.

1. Mathematics is a practical and problem- driven and problem solving knowledge (ie mainly arise from practical or real- life situations).

2. Mathematics is a science of numbers, shape and space and relationships.

3. Mathematics as a language

4. Mathematics as a way of thinking


Assignment 1 :

Discuss in what ways do the perspectives of mathematics influence the curriculum design in mathematics at the secondary school level ?







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