Street mathematics and school mathematics
This text is about the differences between the practical knowledge of mathematics and mathematics learned in school. The authors look at the differences between these two ways of solving mathematical problems
Print Book, English, 1993
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1993
viii, 170 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521381161, 9780521388139, 0521381169, 0521388139
26256408
1. What is street mathematics?
2. Arithmetic in the streets and in schools
3. Written and oral arithmetic
4. Situational representation in oral and written mathematics
5. Situational and mathematical relations: A study on understanding proportions
6. Reversibility and transfer in the schema of proportionality
7. Reflections on street mathematics in hindsight