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Download full textResnick, Lauren B. – 1991
This paper proposes a theory that can account for differences between everyday and formal mathematics knowledge and a set of processes by which informal knowledge is transformed into formal mathematics. After an introduction, the paper is developed in five sections. The first section lays out the nature of informal, everyday mathematics knowledge.…
Descriptors: Addition, Early Experience, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
