Success and Failure in Mathematics: The Flexible Meaning of Symbols as Process and Concept
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Mathematics is an enigmatic subject in which a few succeed with disarming ease, whilst others seem doomed to failure. After analysing the responses of many children performing simple tasks in arithmetic, we find a phenomenon occurring which suggests a reason for this catastrophic divergence in performance. Quite simply we find that those who fail are doing a more difficult kind of mathematics compared to those who succeed.
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تاریخ انتشار 1993