Formal Number Systems in the Context of Early Schooling

Autor:	Farida Abdulla Khan
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	Mathematics education Context (language use) Education Mathematics
Zdroj:	Contemporary Education Dialogue. 6:5-24
ISSN:	2249-5320 0973-1849
DOI:	10.1177/0973184913411174
Popis:	The paper presents a study of the acquisition of numbers concepts, with a focus on their representation in a formal language. Taking the approach that concept acquisition is a cultural activity, the paper analyses the linguistic features of the number naming system in Hindi, as well as observations of teachers’ classroom practices, difficulties faced by children and the errors they make. The paper argues that the inconsistencies in the naming and writing of numbers in Hindi is an important reason for the difficulties faced by children and their consequent poor achievement of basic number competencies and fear of mathematics in the primary school years.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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