The Language of Mathematics: Telling Mathematical Tales emerges from several contemporary concerns in mathematics, language, and mathematics education, buttakes a different stance with respect to language. Rather than investigating the way language or culture impacts mathematics and how it is learned, this book begins by examining different languages and how they express mathematical ideas. The picture of mathematics that emerges is of a subject that is much more contingent, relative, and subject to human experience than is usually accepted. Barton’s thesis takes the idea of mathematics as a human creation, and, using the evidence from language, comes to more radical conclusions than usual. Combines discussion of linguistics and mathematics using examples from each toillustrate the other Conclusions with respect to mathematics education provide alternatives to conventional practice Contains original material and ideas Based in experience and describes many examples that come from common experience Provides new insight into common mathematical experiences like fractions andcircles INDICE: Preface. Introduction.- Part 1: Speaking Mathematics Differently. Space: Points of Reference. Space: Static and Dynamic World Views. Quantitiy: Trapping Numbers in Grammatical Nets.- Part 2: Language and Mathematics. The Evidence from Language. Mumbling, Metaphors, and Mindlocks: The Origins of Mathematics. A Never-Ending Braid: The Development of Mathematics. What is Mathematics? Philosophical Comments.- Part 3: Implications for Mathematics Education.Learning Mathematics. Multilingual and Indigenous Mathematics Education. End Words.- References. Index.- Appendices.
- ISBN: 978-0-387-92937-8
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 190
- Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés