Culture and Cognitive Development: Studies in Mathematical Understanding

by Geoffrey B. Saxe

Researchers examining children's mathematics acquisition are now questioning the belief that children learn mathematics principally through formalized, in-school mathematics education. There is increasing evidence that children gain mathematical understanding through their participation in out-of-school cultural practices and that their mathematics only occasionally resembles what they learn in the classroom. Culture and Cognitive Development presents...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805802738
• ISBN13: 9780805802733
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"