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The Cultural Value of Mathematics
The Mathematics Teacher, 1923When one receives good news or feels the pleasant thrill after having accomplished a difficult task, his first impulse is to rush to some one and tell him of his new found pleasure. And so it is with me. I have had many happy hours and have experienced a peculiar pleasure which I know I could not have experienced had I not applied myself in the study ...
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The value of mathematical talk
Practical Pre-School, 2003Talk is an important link between doing something and knowing something. Talking helps us make sense of what we see and hear. Through talking, new ideas become integrated with established ideas. But we all need something to talk about! Engaging in rich hands-on activities underpins children's developing vocabulary and communication skills.
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2016
There is a widespread perception that mathematics is objective and value-free and that values only enter into mathematics subjectively in the personal preferences of mathematicians. In this paper I argue that, on the contrary, mathematics itself is value-laden; imbued with epistemological, ontological, aesthetic and ethical values.
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There is a widespread perception that mathematics is objective and value-free and that values only enter into mathematics subjectively in the personal preferences of mathematicians. In this paper I argue that, on the contrary, mathematics itself is value-laden; imbued with epistemological, ontological, aesthetic and ethical values.
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The Mathematics Teacher, 1922
“The intellect never slumbers,” but is ever searching for knowledge and truth. It is ever groping about in the darkness of error and of doubt, and if truly honest in its search, uses every light which an all wise and loving Master has given it to detect the slightest flaw in every finite problem which is presented to it.
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“The intellect never slumbers,” but is ever searching for knowledge and truth. It is ever groping about in the darkness of error and of doubt, and if truly honest in its search, uses every light which an all wise and loving Master has given it to detect the slightest flaw in every finite problem which is presented to it.
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Mathematics Education and Student Values: The Cultivation of Mathematical Wellbeing
2010This chapter argues that school mathematics involves more than just the “performance” of students and that “working mathematically” means far more than being good at a specified set of skills, as well as more than being able to show mastery of various conceptual structures.
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The Beauty and Value of Mathematics
The Mathematics Teacher, 2017Some people like mathematics because it is beautiful. Others like mathematics because it is useful. Still others like mathematics because it is true. Mathematics Teacher (MT) is a forum for all. If Archimedes's circles move you, if you find comfort in students' making sense of matrix multiplication, or if you are intrigued by how our minds use repeated
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The Values of Mathematical Culture
1991David Lancy (1983) in his major cross-cultural study in Papua New Guinea gives us a helpful introduction to the analysis of the values of Mathematical culture. He developed a stage theory to account for the differences he found in his research and compared his stages with those of Piaget. He first of all came to the conclusion that, regarding cognitive
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Historicity, Value and Mathematics
1976At the beginning of the present century a series of beautiful but threatening paradoxes were discovered within mathematics, paradoxes which suggested a fundamental unclarity in traditional mathematical methods. These methods rested on the assumption of a realm of mathematical idealities existing independently of our thinking activity, and in order to ...
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Values in Mathematics Education
2019Mathematics stands apart as a subject in the school curriculum, universally regarded as important, the only subject taught in practically every school in the world, and apparently sublimely impervious to the constraints of the cultural environment and social value-system within which it is being taught. One way in which mathematics education can convey
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Mathematics, Educational Values, and Intellectual Values
2018In this chapter I emphasize my conception that the mathematics teacher should also be an educator and not simply a person who covers the course syllabus. I discuss the moral value people call “the golden rule.” I also discuss the educational value of procedures.
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