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Calling upon human powers to work mathematically

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posted on 2022-09-29, 13:18 authored by Dave HewittDave Hewitt

Let me start with a question: When did you first work mathematically?

What do you think about when considering this question? Does your mind go back to early school days? Perhaps to some early counting activities before you started school? Or perhaps to other events? This is not an easy question to answer. Of course, we cannot recall many of our early experiences, so perhaps you can consider the question in terms of young children who you know or have heard about. When are they working mathematically? Have they worked mathematically earlier? How early? What might they have been doing to be working mathematically? [...]

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  • Mathematics Education Centre

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Mathematics Teaching

Volume

283

Pages

32 - 35

Publisher

Association of Teachers of Mathematics

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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Publication date

2022-09-08

Copyright date

2022

ISSN

0025-5785

Language

  • en

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Dr Dave Hewitt. Deposit date: 22 September 2022

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