Teaching Mathematics: Toward a Sound Alternative

by Brent Davis

Book Overview

This book presents an approach to the teaching of mathematics that departs radically from conventional prescription-oriented and management-based methods. It brings together recent developments in such diverse fields as continental and pragmatist philosophy, enactivist thought, critical discourses, cognitive theory, evolution, ecology, and mathematics, and challenges the assumptions that permeate much of mathematics teaching. The discussion focuses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815322984
• ISBN13: 9780815322986
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 7.9"