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(2017) Humanizing mathematics and its philosophy, Basel, Birkhäuser.

A gift to teachers

Nel Noddings

pp. 347-349

Reuben Hersh's What Is Mathematics, Really? is a beautiful gift to math teachers. For many years, despite wave after wave of innovations, math teachers have been bogged down by the insistence that they teach a litany of facts, skills, and concepts that most students will never use. The widespread use of technology seems only to have increased this tendency. Teachers are told to state a carefully specified objective, provide instruction designed to accomplish it, and test, test, test!

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-61231-7_24

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Noddings, N. (2017)., A gift to teachers, in B. Sriraman (ed.), Humanizing mathematics and its philosophy, Basel, Birkhäuser, pp. 347-349.

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