Words and Worlds: Modelling Verbal Descriptions of Situations

Book 17 of 35: New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education

Verschaffel, Lieven; Greer, Brian; Van Dooren, Wim; Mukhopadhyay, Swapna (Editors)

ISBN 10: 9087909365 ISBN 13: 9789087909369

Published by Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, 2009

Language: English

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Words and Worlds: Modelling Verbal Descriptions of Situations

Publisher

Sense Publishers, Rotterdam

Publication Date

2009

Language

English

ISBN 10

9087909365

ISBN 13

9789087909369

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Paperback

Condition

Very Good

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Used

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In this book, the reader is invited to enter a strange world in which you can tell the age of the captain by counting the animals on his ship, where runners do not get tired, and where water gets hotter when you add it to other water. It is the world of a curious genre, known as "word problems" or "story problems". It originated in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, China, and India, and is the subject of daily rituals among students and teachers in mathematics classrooms all around the world. An international group of scholars with a shared interest in this phenomenon explore multiple aspects of this world from multiple perspectives. These discussions take us deep into philosophical issues of the relationships between words, mathematical systems, and the physical and social worlds we all inhabit. Empirical investigations are reported that throw light on how students and their teachers experience and interpret this activity, raising profound questions about the nature and purposes of mathematics teaching/learning in general and how it could be improved.

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Brian Greer is a Full Professor, Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, San Diego State University.
Gerry Mulhern is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast.

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