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School Mathematics Theorems--An Endless Source of Surprise.
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This article is published in for the learning of mathematics.The article was published on 1988-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 45 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Surprise & Everyday Mathematics.read more
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Enabling Teachers to be Real Teachers: Necessary Levels of Awareness and Structure of Attention
TL;DR: The authors argue that to be a real teacher involves the refinement and development of a complex of awarenesses on three levels, and that this is manifested in alterations to the structure of attention.
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Seeing an Exercise as a Single Mathematical Object: Using Variation to Structure Sense-Making
Anne Watson,John Mason +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take an exercise to be a collection of procedural questions or tasks, and they use the notions of dimensions of possible variation and range of permissible change derived from Ference Marton to discuss affordances and constraints of some sample exercises.
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Mathematics and the Body: Material Entanglements in the Classroom
TL;DR: This article explored alternative ways to consider the relationship between mathematics and the material world, drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Châtelet and the post-humanist materialism of Karen Barad.
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The Roles of the Aesthetic in Mathematical Inquiry
TL;DR: In this article, a pragmatic analysis of the roles of the aesthetic in mathematical inquiry is presented, revealing the important interplay between the aesthetic, cognitive, and affective processes involved in mathematical enquiry.
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Wonder, the Rainbow and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences.
Nathalie Sinclair,Anne Watson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a book which sounds as if it has little to do with our field, but which turns out to have much to do about mathematics, with education, and mathematics education in pruticulru.
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Amusements in Mathematics
TL;DR: Amusements in Mathematics as discussed by the authors is a collection of puzzles of a semi-mathematical character written by H. E. Dudeney and published by T. Nelson and Co.
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100 great problems of elementary mathematics : their history and solution
Heinrich Dörrie,David Antin +1 more