Culture and Cognitive Development

Name: Culture and Cognitive Development
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Culture and Cognitive DevelopmentStudies in Mathematical Understanding\nAuthor(s): Geoffrey B. Saxe\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Psychology Press Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781138967106, 978-1138967106\nSynopsis\nResearchers 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. \n\n 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 thisn