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Peer reviewedGarofalo, Joe; Durant, Kingsley – School Science and Mathematics, 1991
Teaching which does not in any significant way address the genesis of mathematical ideas hides the fact that mathematics is created by people; that it involves intuition, exploring, conjecturing, and reasoning; and that it is purposeful. Such teaching can give students appearance that much of mathematics is very arbitrary; it just falls from the…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Mathematics Education
