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Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas

Papua New Guinea Studies

By: Geoffrey B. Saxe

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Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas

Papua New Guinea Studies

By: Geoffrey B. Saxe

Drawing upon field studies conducted in 1978, 1980 and 2001 with the Oksapmin, a remote Papua New Guinea group, Geoffrey B. Saxe traces the emergence of new forms of numerical representations and ideas in the social history of the community. In traditional life, the Oksapmin used a counting system that makes use of twenty-seven parts of the body; there is no evidence that the group used arithmetic in prehistory. As practices of economic exchange and schooling have shifted, children and adults unwittingly reproduced and altered the system in order to solve new kinds of numerical and arithmetical problems, a process that has led to new forms of collective representations in the community. While Dr Saxe's focus is on the Oksapmin, the insights and general framework he provides are useful for understanding shifting representational forms and emerging cognitive functions in any human community.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139560239

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Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas

Papua New Guinea Studies

By: Geoffrey B. Saxe,Indigo Esmonde

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Papua New Guinea Studies

By: Geoffrey B. Saxe,Indigo Esmonde

Geoffrey Saxe traces the emergence of numerical representations and ideas as people participate in collective practices of daily life.

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Culture and Cognitive Development

Studies in Mathematical Understanding

By: Geoffrey B. Saxe

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Culture and Cognitive Development

Studies in Mathematical Understanding

By: Geoffrey B. Saxe

Researchers examining children's mathematics acquisition are now questioning the belief that children learn mathematics principally through formalized, in-school mathematics education. There is increasing evidence that children gain mathematical understanding through their participation in out-of-school cultural practices and that their mathematics only occasionally resembles what they learn in the classroom. Culture and Cognitive Development presents the latest research by Dr. Geoffrey Saxe on this issue. In examinations of the mathematical understandings of child candy sellers in an urban center in northeastern Brazil, Dr. Saxe finds sharp contrasts between mathematics as practiced in school and in real-world settings. In this unique research project he presents a penetrating conceptual treatment of the interplay between culture and cognitive development, filling a void in current research literature. Subjects examined include: the interplay between sociocultural and cognitive developmental processes the differences between math knowledge learned in and out of the classroom the ways math learning in the classroom is modified by children's out-of-school mathematics and, correspondingly, how practical out-of-school mathematics use is modified by formal education

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Psychology Press

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Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas

Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas

Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas

Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas

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