The Intuitive Sources of Probabilistic Thinking in Children (Synthese Library, 85)

Fischbein, H.

ISBN 10: 9027706263 / ISBN 13: 9789027706263

Published by Springer, 1975

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Intuitive Sources of Probabilistic Thinking in Children (Synthese Library, 85)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027706263
• ISBN 13: 9789027706263
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

About a year ago I promised my friend Fischbein a preface to his book of which I knew the French manuscript. Now with the printer's proofs under my eyes I like the book even better than I did then, because of, and influenced by, new experiences in the meantime, and fresh thoughts that crossed my mind. Have I been influenced by what I remembered from the manuscript? If so, it must have happened unconsciously. But of course, what struck me in this work a year ago, struck a responsive chord in my own mind. In the past, mathematics teaching theory has strongly been influenced by a view on mathematics as a heap of concepts, and on learning mathematics as concepts attainment. Mathematics teaching practice has been jeopardised by this theoretical approach, which in its most dangerous form expresses itself as a radical atomism. To concepts attainment Fischbein opposes acquisition of intuitions. In my own publications I avoided the word "intuition" because of the variety of its meanings across languages. For some time I have used the term "constitution of mathematical objects", which I think means the same as Fischbein's "acquisition of intuitions" - indeed as I view it, constituting a mental object precedes its conceptualising, and under this viewpoint I tried to observe mathematical activities of young children.

Language Notes

Text: English, French (translation)