Position Paper – The Importance for Teachers of Understanding how Children's Mathematical Thinking Develops "Why is innumeracy so widespread even among, otherwise educated people? The reasons, to be a little simplistic, are poor education, psychological blocks, and romantic misconceptions about the nature of mathematics." John Allen Paulos 1988 The body of knowledge of how children think mathematically has increased dramatically in the last thirty years. This has caused many changes in the way mathematics is presented to …showed first 75 words of 2625 total…

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