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标题：Early Mathematics Education
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作者：Stephen Campbell
期刊名称：Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal
印刷版ISSN：1465-2978
出版年度：2002
卷号：2002
期号：15
出版社：University of Exter
摘要：The study of mathematics exemplifies the intellectual quest for comprehensive and consistent thinking. Today this quest, as bequeathed to us by the Greeks, has been abandoned in mathematics education in favor of relatively mundane tasks of calculating with formal algorithms and applying those calculations in supposedly more meaningful “real world” contexts. An excuse in forsaking this intellectual quest, especially in the early grades, is that young children are incapable of understanding the conceptual nature of mathematics. This “incapability thesis,” which absolves teachers in the early grades themselves from developing a conceptual understanding of mathematics, is called into question. An alternative philosophy of mathematics education for teaching the conceptual nature of mathematics dating back to Parmenides and Plato is presented and illustrated in ways that may well be within the reach of young children. Some problems and potential implications for mathematics teacher education are considered.