Constructing Number: Merging Perspectives from Psychology and Mathematics Education

by NORTON

The book synergizes research on number across two disciplines--mathematics education and psychology. The underlying problem the book addresses is how the brain constructs number. The opening chapter frames the problem in terms of children's activity, including mental and physical actions. Subsequent chapters are organized into sections that address specific domains of number: natural numbers, fractions, and integers. Chapters within each...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030004902
• ISBN13: 9783030004903
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"