Windows on Mathematical Meanings: Learning Cultures and Computers

by Richard Noss and Celia Hoyles

Book Overview

This book challenges some of the conventional wisdoms on the learning of mathematics. The authors use the computer as a window onto mathematical meaning-making. The pivot of their theory is the idea of webbing, which explains how someone struggling with a new mathematical idea can draw on supportive knowledge, and reconciles the individual's role in mathematical learning with the part played by epistemological, social and cultural forces.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792340744
• ISBN13: 9780792340744
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"