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Download full textLockhead, Jack – 1989
This paper describes the implications of constructivism both for what to teach and for how to teach. The first part discusses three approaches on what to teach: (1) relating mathematical knowledge to other knowledge; (2) checking for self-consistency; and (3) putting thinking before facts. The second part is on how to teach based on…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Higher Education
