WHAT IS MATHEMATICS AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?
In this paper, we discuss the question, "What is mathematics?" We survey results from asking elementary students, secondary students, undergraduate elementary education majors, undergraduate liberal education majors, and undergraduate mathematics majors. We conclude that the answer to the question i...
| Publicado en: | ETC: A Review of General Semantics Vol. 70; no. 4; pp. 387 - 395 |
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