Geometry as objective science in elementary school classrooms : mathematics in the flesh / Wolff-Michael Roth.

"This study examines the origins of geometry in and out of the intuitively given everyday lifeworlds of children in a second-grade mathematics class. These lifeworlds, though pre-geometric, are not without model objects that denote and come to anchor geometric idealities that they will understand at...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Roth, Wolff-Michael, 1953-
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2011.
Series:	Routledge international studies in the philosophy of education ; 27.
Subjects:	Geometry > Study and teaching (Primary) Education, Primary > Philosophy.
Physical Description:	xv, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format:	Book