Why Learn Maths? (Bedford Way Papers, Band 13) - Softcover

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Across the globe mathematics has a privileged place in the school curriculum which we tend to take for granted. But are all the arguments that have been put forward in its defence equally sound? Do they justify its status as a compulsory subject? What priority should it have in the curriculum compared with other subjects? The contributors to this book explore these questions and their historical background. They investigate the varied aims of learning and teaching mathematics, and to what extent the discipline deserves the high curricular status it has traditionally enjoyed. They include leading writers in the field of mathematics education, school improvement, history of education and philosophy of education. Their views represent perspectives from outside the world of mathematics education as well as from within, and there is sharp disagreement among them about the future of compulsory mathematics at secondary level.

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