Learning and Teaching Mathematics
An International Perspective

Provides an account of recent and radically different research on teaching and learning mathematics which can have a far reaching effect on views about mathematical education.

The authors of this volume, which is newly available in paperback, all hold the view that mathematics is a form of intelligent problem solving which plays an important part in children's lives outside the classroom as well as in it. "Learning and Teaching Mathematics" provides an exciting account of recent and radically different research on teaching and learning mathematics which will have a far reaching effect on views about mathematical education.

T. Nunes, B. Bryant, About this Book: A Brief Overview. Part I: Mathematics and Intelligence. Part II: The Development of Mathematical Understandings. Part III: Social and Cultural Influences on Mathematical Learning. Part IV: Constructing Knowledge in the Classroom.