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__The Language of Mathematics: Telling Mathematical Tales__ emerges from several contemporary concerns in mathematics, language, and mathematics education, but takes 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. __Everyday mathematical ideas are expressed quite differently in different languages. Variety occurs in the way languages express numbers, describe position, categorise patterns, as well as in the grammar of mathematical discourse. The first part of The Language of Mathematics: Telling Mathematical Tales explores these differences and thus illustrates the possibility of different mathematical worlds. This section both provides evidence of language difference with respect to mathematic talk

Who reads The Language of Mathematics: Telling Mathematical Tales (Mathematics Education Library Book 44)?

Author

Bill Barton (auth.)

Publisher

Springer US

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780387728582

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Mathematics, Education, Literary Fiction