Beliefs: A Hidden Variable in Mathematics Education?

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Leder, Gilah C. (Editor), Pehkonen, Erkki (Editor), Törner, Günter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Series: Mathematics Education Library ; 31
• Subjects: Education.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Mathematics Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Education, general.

The twenty chapters in this book all focus on aspects of mathematical beliefs, from a variety of different perspectives. Current knowledge of the field is synthesized and existing boundaries are extended. The book is divided into three, partly overlapping, sections. The first concentrates on concept...