Author : Brian Rotman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780804736848
In this book, Rotman argues that mathematics is a vast and unique man-made imagination machine controlled by writing. It addresses both aspects—mental and linguistic—of this machine. The essays in this volume offer an insight into Rotman's project, one that has been called "one of the most original and important recent contributions to the philosophy of mathematics."
Author : Rebecca Fjelland Davis
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1404847898
Primary math concepts are introduced using creative examples, easy-to-understand text and art illustration.
Author : Adalira Sáenz-Ludlow
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,87 MB
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9463003371
Semiotics as a Tool for Learning Mathematics is a collection of ten theoretical and empirical chapters, from researchers all over the world, who are interested in semiotic notions and their practical uses in mathematics classrooms. Collectively, they present a semiotic contribution to enhance pedagogical aspects both for the teaching of school mathematics and for the preparation of pre-service teachers. This enhancement involves the use of diagrams to visualize implicit or explicit mathematical relations and the use of mathematical discourse to facilitate the emergence of inferential reasoning in the process of argumentation. It will also facilitate the construction of proofs and solutions of mathematical problems as well as the progressive construction of mathematical conceptions that, eventually, will approximate the concept(s) encoded in mathematical symbols. These symbols hinge not only of mental operations but also on indexical and iconic aspects; aspects which often are not taken into account when working on the meaning of mathematical symbols. For such an enhancement to happen, it is necessary to transform basic notions of semiotic theories to make them usable for mathematics education. In addition, it is also necessary to back theoretical claims with empirical data. This anthology attempts to deal with such a conjunction. Overall, this book can be used as a theoretical basis for further semiotic considerations as well as for the design of different ways of teaching mathematical concepts.
Author : Michael H.G. Hoffmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 32,32 MB
Release : 2005-12-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 0387242708
The advancement of a scientific discipline depends not only on the "big heroes" of a discipline, but also on a community’s ability to reflect on what has been done in the past and what should be done in the future. This volume combines perspectives on both. It celebrates the merits of Michael Otte as one of the most important founding fathers of mathematics education by bringing together all the new and fascinating perspectives created through his career as a bridge builder in the field of interdisciplinary research and cooperation. The perspectives elaborated here are for the greatest part motivated by the impressing variety of Otte’s thoughts; however, the idea is not to look back, but to find out where the research agenda might lead us in the future. This volume provides new sources of knowledge based on Michael Otte’s fundamental insight that understanding the problems of mathematics education – how to teach, how to learn, how to communicate, how to do, and how to represent mathematics – depends on means, mainly philosophical and semiotic, that have to be created first of all, and to be reflected from the perspectives of a multitude of diverse disciplines.
Author : Giovanni Boniolo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 2005-07-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402031076
Even though mathematics and physics have been related for centuries and this relation appears to be unproblematic, there are many questions still open: Is mathematics really necessary for physics, or could physics exist without mathematics? Should we think physically and then add the mathematics apt to formalise our physical intuition, or should we think mathematically and then interpret physically the obtained results? Do we get mathematical objects by abstraction from real objects, or vice versa? Why is mathematics effective into physics? These are all relevant questions, whose answers are necessary to fully understand the status of physics, particularly of contemporary physics. The aim of this book is to offer plausible answers to such questions through both historical analyses of relevant cases, and philosophical analyses of the relations between mathematics and physics.
Author : Josef Simon
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791424537
In this book, Simon wields Ockham's razor like a scythe to argue historically and systematically for a coherent philosophy of the sign as sign with an unprecedented minimum of ontological and semantical commitments. Deconstructing Plato, Frege, and Husserl, he accounts for signs without positing the existence either of meanings which they express or of things to which they refer. Indeed, he shows that one cannot understand anything that is not a sign, so that one never gets to meanings without signs or things beyond signs.
Author : Danielle Macbeth
Publisher :
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 2014-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0198704755
Danielle Macbeth offers a new account of mathematical practice as a mode of inquiry into objective truth, and argues that understanding the nature of mathematical practice provides us with the resources to develop a radically new conception of ourselves and our capacity for knowledge of objective truth.
Author : Efraín Soto Apolinar
Publisher : Efrain Soto Apolinar
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 38,35 MB
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 6072941311
This illustrated glossary for school mathematics provides precise definitions accessible to a wide spectrum of readers. This book includes the most frequently used concepts of elementary mathematics, ranging from primary, secondary, high school and university levels, corresponding to courses in the engineering areas. It includes terms related to infinitesimal calculus, calculus of functions of several variables, linear algebra, differential equations, vector calculus, finite mathematics, probability, and statistics. This book contains 2420 defined terms and 1248 figures. The number of illustrations is greater if the examples in each definition are considered as an illustration. In addition to the definition of each term, where it was considered appropriate, related mathematical results, algebraic properties of the defined mathematical object, its geometric representation, examples to clarify the concept or the defined mathematical technique, etc., are included with the intention of conveying the mathematical idea in different forms of representation (algebraic, numerical, geometric, etc.) The goal of the author of this book is to provide a reference source for schoolwork, and at the same time, to help the student to understand the definition of a mathematical term or to know the most important results related to it. A glossary of mathematical terms can never be considered finished. Therefore, it is not intended to cover all branches and all the terms in mathematics. However, this version is a very complete one, and it should be considered an indispensable volume, both in the school library and in the family library. This book will be very useful for students, teachers, tutors, edutubers, authors, and even researchers in the area of mathematics, and its learning and teaching, and anyone from the general public who wishes to improve their understanding of mathematical ideas.
Author : Lyn D. English
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 19,84 MB
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134626711
This third edition of the Handbook of International Research in Mathematics Education provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent theoretical and practical developments in the field of mathematics education. Authored by an array of internationally recognized scholars and edited by Lyn English and David Kirshner, this collection brings together overviews and advances in mathematics education research spanning established and emerging topics, diverse workplace and school environments, and globally representative research priorities. New perspectives are presented on a range of critical topics including embodied learning, the theory-practice divide, new developments in the early years, educating future mathematics education professors, problem solving in a 21st century curriculum, culture and mathematics learning, complex systems, critical analysis of design-based research, multimodal technologies, and e-textbooks. Comprised of 12 revised and 17 new chapters, this edition extends the Handbook’s original themes for international research in mathematics education and remains in the process a definitive resource for the field.
Author : Heinz Steinbring
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 0387242538
Mathematics is generally considered as the only science where knowledge is uni form, universal, and free from contradictions. „Mathematics is a social product - a 'net of norms', as Wittgenstein writes. In contrast to other institutions - traffic rules, legal systems or table manners -, which are often internally contradictory and are hardly ever unrestrictedly accepted, mathematics is distinguished by coherence and consensus. Although mathematics is presumably the discipline, which is the most differentiated internally, the corpus of mathematical knowledge constitutes a coher ent whole. The consistency of mathematics cannot be proved, yet, so far, no contra dictions were found that would question the uniformity of mathematics" (Heintz, 2000, p. 11). The coherence of mathematical knowledge is closely related to the kind of pro fessional communication that research mathematicians hold about mathematical knowledge. In an extensive study, Bettina Heintz (Heintz 2000) proposed that the historical development of formal mathematical proof was, in fact, a means of estab lishing a communicable „code of conduct" which helped mathematicians make themselves understood in relation to the truth of mathematical statements in a co ordinated and unequivocal way.
