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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: David Graham Wells (Fox & Howard Literary Agency, Uk)Publisher: Imperial College Press Imprint: Imperial College Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781783267538ISBN 10: 1783267534 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 03 December 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreamble: Young on The Teaching of Mathematics; Introduction: Motivation and Mathematics Teaching; Demotivating and Demotivated Pupils; Motivating and Motivated Pupils; Appreciating = Knowing About Mathematics; Motivating Emotions: Beauty and Aesthetics; Proof in School Classrooms; Ways of Seeing Mathematics; Euclidean Geometry as Game-Like; The Scientific Approach to Mathematics; Mathematics as Perception; Mathematics Applied to Science; Classrooms in Other Countries; Rich Complexity; False Simplicity; Appendix: Jennifer Kano's Letter;ReviewsDavid Wells writes in a way that is both illuminating to experts in mathematics and accessible to non-experts ... this book offers an essential critique and points to ways in which school mathematics education could be motivating because interesting. -- Professor Brian Greer Graduate School of Education, Portland State University Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |