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What is math? It might seem obvious: We hope we know what we're teaching -- and that our students know what they're learning! But responses to that question can be surprisingly diverse.
Before you read on, please take a few minutes to reflect and record your own thoughts on "What is math?
educator -- I teach grade 4 math, I've created a math Web site, and I write about topics in math education. Yet I cannot easily express what math is. I'm in good company. Bertrand Russell has quipped, "Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true." Math teacher Sanderson M. Smith observes that "students can gain a tremendous appreciation for mathematics if they understand that the question 'What is mathematics?' has been analyzed and debated since the time of the Pythagoreans, around 550 B.C. "
It is worth pursuing a clear understanding of the meaning and scope of mathematics so that we might provide our students with a richer learning experience and help them more fully appreciate the beauty and power of mathematics.
Before you read on, please take a few minutes to reflect and record your own thoughts on "What is math?
educator -- I teach grade 4 math, I've created a math Web site, and I write about topics in math education. Yet I cannot easily express what math is. I'm in good company. Bertrand Russell has quipped, "Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true." Math teacher Sanderson M. Smith observes that "students can gain a tremendous appreciation for mathematics if they understand that the question 'What is mathematics?' has been analyzed and debated since the time of the Pythagoreans, around 550 B.C. "
It is worth pursuing a clear understanding of the meaning and scope of mathematics so that we might provide our students with a richer learning experience and help them more fully appreciate the beauty and power of mathematics.
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Mathematics is the science that deals with the logic of shape, quantity and arrangement. Math is all around us, in everything we do.
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